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Preliminary program for the Conference Social Media and Social Movements in LINIS has been prepared

Internet Research Laboratory (LINIS) has published a program of the conference Social Media and Social Movements, which will take place at HSE (St. Petersburg) on September, 18-19.

Together with the program, links to the abstracts of key speakers and participants have also published.

This year in LINIS Robert Ackland comes. Prof. Ackland is a well-known scientist in social network analysis area and the author of the book Web Social Science, which is almost hand-book for researchers in SNA. At the conference Professor makes a report Online Activist Fields on Web 1.0 and Twitter, and will hold a workshop about analysis of the links through VOSON.

LINIS also invited Maria Petrova, the author of publications about media in scientific journals of economic, social and political sciences. At the conference Prof. Petrova will present some of the results of her current research Social Media and Protest Participation.

Entrance to the conference is free for academics, students and anyone interested in the development of social movements and protests in social media.