*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 8TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

8th European Conference on Social Media

1 - 2 July 2021, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (UCLan)

 

ACPI is continuing to prepare for our conferences scheduled for the remainder of the year and into next year. We are aware that the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 may affect your ability to attend an event in person, but we are integrating interactive virtual participation where attendance is not possible. We urge you to continue to submit your abstracts and papers in line with the published dates (extensions will be granted on request). For more details and regular updates please click here or contact info@academic-conferences.org.

The European Conference on Social Media was established 8 years ago in Brighton and has subsequently been held in Portugal, France, Lithuania and Ireland. The conference has attracted participants from more than 40 countries and been attended by a combination of academic scholars, public sector workers, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of the social media industry. A number of journals are selecting papers from the conference for further development and publication.

Social media is being adopted and applied in almost every area of human activity, be it for personal applications, in education, for commercial applications or in the public sector. The rapid uptake of social media is related to many factors including its ease of use and adaptability to different devices. However, it also poses some challenges and problems that need to be addressed and discussed. Taking this into consideration ECSM seeks to establish a home for researchers and practitioners with a wide range of approaches to engaging with the impact, use and potential of social media across disciplines. The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide array of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and empirical papers employing qualitative, quantitative and critical methods.

All Papers accepted for ECSM after the double-blind peer review process will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment.  The Proceedings is a published book with an ISBN and ISSN.

Please see the ECSM Call for Papers, Important Dates below.

 

Key Topics

• Social media in business 
• Social media in education 
• Social media in the present knowledge economy 
• The networked citizen 
• Monitoring and evaluating social media 
• Security of social media

 

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: still accepting abstracts

Notification of abstract acceptance: 18 December 2020

Full paper due for review: 28 January 2021

Notification of paper acceptance (with any requested changes): 08 April 2021

Earlybird registration closes: 22 April 2021

Final paper due (with any changes): 06 May 2021

Final Author registration date: 27 May 2021

 

Conference Publications

Papers accepted for the ECSM after the double-blind peer review process, will be published in the conference proceedings, subject to author registration and payment. The conference proceedings have an ISSN (2055-7213) and will be assigned an ISBN on publication. Additionally, papers that have been presented at the conference will also be considered for further development an possible publication in the journals listed below. Note that journal editors are provided with the conference proceedings and will make selections if they feel work is appropriate and of sufficient quality for the journal. If invited to publish in a journal authors will be expected to develop the work by 40-50%, including a change of title and abstract. Individual journal procedures will need to be followed and there is no guarantee of publication.

• Online Information Review published by Emerald Insight, ISSN: 1468-4527 
• International Journal of Social Media and Interactive LearningEnvironments published by Inderscience, ISSN 2050-3962 
• International Journal of Web-Based Communities published by Inderscience, 
• Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society published by Emerald Insight, ISSN 1477-996X

 

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