There are some invited great speakers at the conference which I've come across in my literature review for my research. Marc Smith from Microsoft Research's Community Technologies Group is speaking about Illustrating Digital Traces: Visualizations of patterns generated by computer-mediated collective action systems. Marc's done a lot of work with visualizing communities and interaction in newsgroups with their NetScan project. Another speaker is Rob Malda and Jeff Bates from Slashdot who are talking about The Life, Times and Tribulations of Slashdot. Finally, the last speaker is Judith Donath from the Social Media Group at MIT, and she will be talking about Agents and Faces: The Reliability of Online Signals.
There are many workshops at the conference, one that really piques my interest is the Online Interaction Workshop being organized by Thomas Lento, Howard Welser, Eric Gleave and Marc Smith that deals with Studying Interaction in Online Communities: From Data Sources to Research Results. I'd be interested in the presentations and any workshop report that comes out of this.
There are also many papers as well which start tomorrow. Looking forward to the proceedings which I hope will be available on ACM or IEEE.
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