***** W O R K S H O P D E S C R I P T I O N ***** The Summer Social Webshop (@Webshop2011) is 4-day interdisciplinary workshop for US graduate students (August 23-26, 2011) at the University of Maryland, College Park organized by leading researchers for graduate students at US universities studying social-networking tools, blogs and microblogs, user-generated content sites, discussion groups, problem reporting, recommendation systems, and other social media. For more information and application go to: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/webshop2011 Application deadline for best consideration: June 17th, 2011. ************************************************************ We are also using twitter to spread this announcement. You can see the original tweet (for retweeting) at http://twitter.com/#!/smilex3md/status/75626228660449280 and the original tweeted text is: US Grad student applications wanted for #Webshop2011 #UMD #HCIL #NSF #SMRF #TMSP #SNA #Socialmedia Aug 23-26 http://bit.ly/iJnS7u If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Alan Neustadtl Department of Sociology University of Maryland