Organizers:Gianmarco De Francisci MoralesLuca Maria AielloFabrizio SilvestriSymeon Papadopoulos

2nd workshop on Social News On the Web

IWSC 2014 2

Topics

• News mining• Grassroots and data-driven journalism• Content trustworthiness/verification• Trending topic detection• Presentation of newsworthy content• …

4/4/2014

Program• Session 1 [9:00-10.30] Chair: Luca Aiello

– Trends of News Diffusion in Social Media based on Crowd Phenomena– Alethiometer: a framework for assessing trustworthiness and content

validity in social media– Describing and Contextualizing Events in TV News Show– News from the Crowd: Grassroots and Collaborative Journalism in the

Digital Age

• Session 2 [11:00-12.30] Chair: Luca Aiello– Keynote [Alex Jaimes] Data Driven Journalism: From Agenda Setting

to News Responses– Challenges of Computational Verification in Social Multimedia

• Session 3 [14:00-15.30] Chair: Symeon Papadopoulos– Keynote [Jure Leskovec] Creating, placing, and presenting social

media content– Topic detection challenge openings

• Session 4 [16:00-17.30] Chair: Symeon Papadopoulos – Topic detection challenge presentations– Prizes

IWSC 2014 4

Timing

• Full papers: 25 minutes• Position papers: 20 minutes• Keynote talks: 60 minutes

4/4/2014

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