MICROBLOGGING: WHAT AND HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? CHI 2010 Workshop Atlanta, Georgia, USA Saturday, April 11, 2010 Workshop Site: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~julia/chi2010.html ORGANIZERS ----------------------------------------------- Julia Grace, IBM Research, Almaden Dejin Zhao, Penn State University, University Park danah boyd, Microsoft Research, New England WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION ----------------------------------------------- Communication via short, real-time message broadcast, also known as microblogging, is relatively a new communication channel for people to share information. We use microblogging as an umbrella term to include status updates from social networks such as Facebook, and message- exchange services such as Twitter. Recent research has shown that people employ these services to share informal information they would likely not otherwise publish through other mediums (i.e., email, phone, IM, or weblogs). Microblogging has become quite popular quickly, catching researchers’ interests as both a means of public, social information exchange, and a medium for collaboration and communication in the work context. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange insights into how microblogs are used in enterprises, academic and social settings, developing an agenda for what and how we can learn from and better study this phenomenon. CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS ----------------------------------------------- ** Submission deadline: January 6, 2010 ** Participants are asked to submit a 2-page position paper in ACM CHI Format. We encourage submissions of microblogging research work in both social context and work settings. Position papers should address specific research questions of authors' work, methodological approaches, contributions to the area, important conversations to have for now, and short biographies for each author. At least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the workshop and for one or more days of the conference itself. Please email submissions to chi-2010-microblogging (at) googlegroups.com using the subject "CHI 2010 Microblogging Workshop Submission". Submissions are due at midnight PST Jan 6, 2010. We will notify all participants of acceptance or rejection on January 30th, 2010.