***Apologies for cross-posting*** Happy New Year! Due to many requests, the paper submission deadline for the 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (Toronto, Canada, July 28-30) has been extended. Both work-in-progress (WiP) and full papers are now due January 31st, 2017. The organizing committee invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research. IMPORTANT DATES . Full and Work-in-Progress (WIP) Papers - Due January 31, 2017 (extended!) . Posters and Panels - Due March 6, 2017 . Conference Dates - July 28-30, 2017 Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930971&CFID=847001369&CFTOKEN=15617273&p reflayout=flat#prox> ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will also be invited to submit their extended conference papers to a special issue of the <http://sms.sagepub.com/> Social Media + Society journal ( <http://sms.sagepub.com/> http://sms.sagepub.com/) published by SAGE. For more information, please see CfP at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/cfp-2017-international-conference-soc ial-media-society/ or visit the Submission Page at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ ORGANIZATION: * 2017 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: * Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada - Conference Chair * Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - Poster Chair * Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK - WIP Chair * Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA - WIP Chair * Advisory Board: * William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA * Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA * Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada * Programme Committee: o Visit: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/ If you have any questions, please contact us via email at ask@socialmediaandsociety.org <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org> or on Twitter at @SocMediaConf <https://twitter.com/SocMediaConf>