WMIDS 2020
The main purpose of the event is to encourage discussion about the use of technologies for the generation of information in the media context. Therefore, discussions will be held on current and highly relevant topics for the areas of Information and Communication, also considering its interdisciplinarity with Marketing, Journalism, Public Relations, Library Science, Business Management, and Computer Science.
Considering the scenario of social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event will take place in a virtual environment, on June 29-30, 2020. We invite everyone to participate! Registration is free. The event will be broadcast on Youtube.
Scientific Program
June 29, 2020
08h00 - Opening Ceremony
08h20 - Building knowledge graphs for social network analysis
Danielle Sanches - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
09h30 - A code in hand but with no ideas in mind
Leonardo F. Nascimento - Laboratório de Humanidades Digitais, Universidade Federal da Bahia
10h40 - Modeling for linear TV audience prediction
Bruno Lucian - Loggi
14h00 - Contributed Paper Session
June 30, 2020
08h00 - Sociability on social networks
Inês Amaral - Universidade de Coimbra
09h10 - Echo chambers and circulation of information on social media
Dra. Raquel Recuero (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)
10h30 - Round Table: Information in pandemic times of COVID-19
Nina Santos - Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Democracia Digital (INCT.DD)
Marcelo Alves - ESPM/IBPAD
Raquel Recuero - Universidade Federal de Pelotas
14h00 - Contributed Paper Session
19h00 - Inteligencia coelctiva y estrategias transmedia en el marco del Covid-19
María Isabel Villa Montoya - Universidad EAFIT (Colombia)
Keynote Speakers
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Bruno Lucian Data scientist at Loggi and consultant at Cognitivo.ai in projects on data analysis and predictive modeling. He worked as a data scientist at Rede Globo, working on projects on studying user behavior, analyzing time series, and classifying topics using Natural Language Processing. Bachelor in Statistics from Universidade Federal Fluminense and Master in Applied Mathematics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. |
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Danielle Sanches de Almeida Researcher at the Digital Humanities Laboratory, at the Contemporary History Institute (IHC) - Universidade Nova de Lisboa. PhD in History of Sciences by École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS / Paris). Works with the application of methodologies related to Geographic Information Systems, Network Analysis and Text Analysis through the application of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. |
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Inês Amaral PhD in Communication Sciences - Interactive Media at the University of Minho in 2012. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra. Integrated Researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies at the University of Minho - Research Group on Media and Journalism. Member of ObCiber - Observatory of Cyberjournalism, Observatory Media, Information and Literacy and NIP-C@M. Research interests: cyberculture; participation, social networks and new media; social movements; hearings; media and digital literacy; digital inclusion and active aging. |
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Leonardo Nascimento PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Social and Political Studies - IESP / UERJ (2013). Doctoral internship at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Develops works focused on the study of new technologies applied to data research and analysis in social sciences, especially using CAQDAS (Computer Assisted / Aided Qualitative Data Analysis) and research on Digital Sociology, Data Mining, Big Data Social Science and Media Analysis . |
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María Isabel Villa Montoya PhD in Communication at Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. Professor and researcher at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Projects on digital communication, organizational and productive transformations in radio-television groups, narrative analysis, social media analysis. |
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Nina Santos Researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy (INCT.DD). Doctorate from the Center for Analysis and Interdisciplinary Research on the Media (CARISM) at Panthéon-Assas University / Paris II (France), under the guidance of Cécile Méadel (2019). Extensive professional experience in the area of digital political advice. Research themes include digital democracy, social movements and communication ecosystems. Current research focuses mainly on issues of mediation, visibility and authority in the age of digital communication. |
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Raquel Recuero Professor and researcher at the Center for Letters and Communication at the Federal University of Pelotas, and researcher at the Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Experience in the area of Communication and Applied Linguistics, with emphasis on social networks on the Internet . Works on projects in the areas of disinformation, social media analysis, digital ecosystems, among others. |
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Rodolfo Viana Data scientist at Rede Globo's CoE Analytics, focused on journalism, and professor of data analytics at Digital House Brasil. Before that, for more than a decade, he was a reporter and editor, having worked for the newsrooms of TV Globo, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and publications of Editora Abril, and collaborations for Revista Piauí and the fact-checking website Aos Fatos. |
Committees
Local Organizing Committee
- Douglas Farias Cordeiro (Chair, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Kátia Kelvis Cassiano (Vice-Chair, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Andrea Pereira dos Santos (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Núbia Rosa da Silva (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
Scientific Program Committee
- Kátia Kelvis Cassiano (Chair, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Andrea Pereira dos Santos (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Ângela Teixeira de Moraes (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Angelita Pereira de Lima (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Arnaldo Alves Ferreira Júnior (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Dalcimar Casanova (Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Brazil)
- Didier Augusto Vega Oliveros (Indiana University, USA)
- Eduardo Ferreira Ribeiro (Federal University of Tocantis, Brazil)
- Fabíola Gonçalves Coelho Ribeiro (Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Brazil)
- Gardene Leão de Castro (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Keila Mara Cassiano (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil)
- Lara Lima Satler (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Lilian Berton (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)
- Liliane do Nascimento Vale (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Marina Roriz Rizzo Lousa da Cunha (Federal University of Goias, Brazil)
- Marizangela Gomes de Morais (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Nádia Félix Felipe da Silva (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Núbia Rosa da Silva (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Rodolfo Junior Pérez Nárvaez (Politécnico de la Costa Atlántica, Colombia)
- Tércio Alberto dos Santos (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Vinicius Ruela Pereira Borges (University of Brasília, Brazil)
Students
- Anelise Souza Rocha (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Caroline Guimarães Silva (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Jully Porto Lopes Melo (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Lara Medeiros de Freitas (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
- Larissa Machado Vieira (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)
Call for papers
The Local Organizing Committee and the Scientific Program Committee invite the Brazilian and international communities to submit abstracts to be considered for oral presentation at the WMIDS 2020. Abstracts can be submitted online until June 16, 2020. The best papers will be invited to submit an extended version for composing a book. The extended version can be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish. The results will be published on this website. Oral presentations can be made in English, Portuguese or Spanish.
WMIDS topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Big Social Data;
- Fake news and misinformation;
- Data Journalism;
- Social networks visualization;
- Flow and diffusion of information;
- Extraction and treatment of social data;
- Mining techniques;
- Influence detection and propagation;
- Trust and expertise identification;
- Modeling of user behavior;
- Monitoring social networks;
- Privacy in social networks;
- Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding;
- Social Networks and Software Ecosystems;
- Social networks, health, and well-being;
- Analysis of covert networks and Dark Web;
- Economics in networks;
- Location-aware social networks and mobility;
- Ethical issues in data analysis;
- Social network analysis applied to Cognitive Computing;
- Social media and library science;
- Cases and application to real-life situations: Medicine, Science, Education;
- Marketing, Team Formation, Decision Making, Management, and others.
Instructions for abstract submission:
- Create an account and log in;
- Make a "New submission"
- Add the information about the authors; Title of the paper; Abstract (up to 250 words); and Keywords (at least three);
- Submit.
General Instructions:
- All abstracts must be submitted online. No other forms of abstracts are permissible;
- The abstract is limited to 250 words;
- The abstract must be written in English;
- The number of oral abstract submissions with the same presenting author is limited to two;
- The number of abstracts submitted by a single participant is limited to two;
- All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the scientific committee for the conference, and presenting authors will be informed of the status of their abstract by June 22, 2020;
- All contributed oral presentations will be allocated to a 10 minutes, including 5 minutes for discussion, within a particular scientific session.
Contact
gtaufg.responde@gmail.com