The Social Media Collective is showing up in force at Internet Research 16 in Phoenix, Arizona starting next week. Along with many friends of the SMC, there will be some of our permanent researchers (Nancy Baym, Tarleton Gillespie), postdocs current and past (Kevin Driscoll, Lana Swartz, Mike Ananny), past & present interns (Stacy Blasiola, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Germaine Halegoua, Tero Karppi, J. Nathan Matias, Kat Tiidenberg,  Shawn Walker, Nick Seaver), past and future Visiting Researchers (Jean Burgess, Annette Markham, Susanna Paasonen, Hector Postigo, TL Taylor), and our past Research Assistants (Kate Miltner and Alex Leavitt). Hope to see you there!

Below is a list of papers and panels they will be presenting:

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WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT

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Workshop:

Digital Methods in Internet Research

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Tama Leaver, Ben Light, Patrik Wikstrom

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THURSDAY, 22 OCT

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Beyond Big Bird: The Role of Humor in the Aggregate Interpretation of Live-Tweeted Events

11:00 am – 12:20 pm

Alex Leavitt, Kristen Guth, Kevin Driscoll, François Bar

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ROUNDTABLE: Teaching Ethics in Big Data and Social Media: Bridging Theory and Practice in the Classroom

11:00 am- 12:20 pm

Shawn Thomas Walker, Anna Lauren Hoffmann, Jim Thatcher

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You [Don’t] Gotta Pay the Troll Toll: A Transaction Costs Model of Online Harassment

1:30 pm – 2:50 pm

Stacy Blasiola

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PANEL: Facebook’s Futures

1:30 pm, -2:50 pm

Tero Jukka Karppi, Andrew Richard Schrock, Andrew Herman, Fenwick McKelvey

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ROUNDTABLE: Unpacking the Black Box of Qualitative Analysis: Exploring How the Imaginaries of Digital Inquiry are Constructed through Everyday Research Practice

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

Annette N Markham, Nancy K. Baym, T.L. Taylor, Lynn Schofield Clark, Jill Walker Rettberg

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ROUNDTABLE: It’s Really About Ethics in Games Research: Reflections on #GamerGate

3:10 pm- 4:30 pm

Shira Chess, Adrienne Shaw, Adrienne Massanari, Christopher Paul, Kate Miltner, Casey O’Donnell

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The Role of Breakdown in Imagining Big Data: Impediment to Insight to Innovation

3:10 pm- 4:30 pm

Anissa Tanweer, Brittany Fiore-Gartland, Cecilia Aragon

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***The Nancy Baym Book Award will be  presented to Robert Gehl for Reverse Engineering Social Media at the banquet on Thursday night

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FRIDAY, 23, OCT

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Singing Data Over the Phone: A Social History of the Modem

9:00 am – 10:20 am

Kevin Driscoll

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PANEL: Karma Policing: Re-imagining what we can (and can’t) post on the Internet

9:00 am – 10:20 am

Michael Burnam-Fink, Katrin Tiidenberg, John Carter McKnight, Cindy Tekobbe

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ROUNDTABLE: Real and Imagined Boundaries: Building Connections Between Social Justice Activists and Internet Researchers

10:40 am – 12:00 pm

Catherine Knight Steele, Andre Brock, Annette Markham

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ROUNDTABLE: Private Platforms under Public Pressure

10:40 am – 12:00 pm

Tarleton Gillespie, Mike Ananny, Christian Sandvig & J. Nathan Matias

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ROUNDTABLE: Histories of Hating

10:40 am- 12:00 pm

Tamara Shepherd, Sam Srauy, Kevin Driscoll, Lana Swartz, Hector Postigo

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The Challenges of Weibo for Data-Driven Digital Media Research

10:40 am – 12:00 pm

Jing Zeng, Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns

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PANEL: Economies of the Internet II: Affect

1:00 pm – 2:20 pm

Sharif Mowlabocus, Nancy Baym, Susanna Paasonen, Dylan Wittkower, Kylie Jarrett

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PANEL: Internet Research Ethics: New Contexts, New Challenges – New (Re)solutions?

Charles Melvin Ess, Annette Markham, Mark D. Johns, Yukari Seko, Katrin Tiidenberg, Camilla Granholm, Ylva Hård af Segerstad^, Dick Kasperowski

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Parks and Recommendation: Spatial Imaginaries in Algorithmic Systems

2:40 pm – 4:00 pm

Nick Seaver

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Re-placeing the City: Digital Navigation Technologies and the Experience of Urban Place

2:40 pm – 4:00 pm

Germaine R. Halegoua

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ROUNDTABLE: Compromised Data? Research on Social media platforms

4:20 pm- 5:40 pm

Greg Elmer, Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Robert Gehl

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FISHBOWL: Exploring “Internet Culture”: Discourses, Boundaries, and Implications

4:20 pm – 5:40 pm

Kate Miltner, Ryan M. Milner, Whitney Phillips, Megan Sapnar Ankerson

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SATURDAY 24, OCT

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FISHBOWL: The Quantified Imaginary

9:00 am – 10:20 am

Lee Humphreys, Jean Burgess, Joseph Turow

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Imaginary Inactivity and the Share Button

9:00 am- 10: 20 am

Airi-Alina Allaste, Katrin Tiidenberg

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ROUNDTABLE: ‘Black Box’ Data and ‘Flying Furball’ Networks: Challenges and Opportunities in Doing and Communicating Social Media Analytics

1:30 pm – 2:50 pm

Axel Bruns, Anders Olof Larsson, Katrin Weller

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ROUNDTABLE: Ethics and Social Justice Meeting: Discussing AOIR Committees and Mission

3:10 pm – 4:30 pm

Annette N Markham, Jenny Stromer Galley, Catherine Knight Steele