Special Issue Call for Papers:
Trusting the Social Web
World Wide Web Journal
Guest Editors:
Dr. Surya Nepal, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, Email: Surya.Nepal@CSIRO.AU
Dr. Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Email: Cecile.Paris@CSIRO.AU
Prof. Athman Bouguettaya, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, Email: athman.bouguettaya@rmit.edu.au
Social media has increasingly become mainstream for a variety of purposes
ranging from online journalism (e.g., blogs), online knowledge base (e.g.,
Wikepedia), online marketing (e.g., Twitter), to keep in touch with friends,
family and professional colleagues online (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.).
These technologies have given a birth of social media oriented Web, also
known as Social Web. The popularity of the Social Web is increasing
exponentially. It is reported that 66 percent of online adults are connected
to one or more social media platforms and 50 percent of them say they check
in to their favorite social media site first thing in the morning everyday.
This trend is likely to grow as the number of smartphones shipments is
expected to reach 1 billion by 2015 and the value of social commerce is
expected to reach 30 billion dollars within next five years. Similarly, 13
percent of digital news consumers follow the recommendations from Twitter
and FaceBook. Therefore, the Social Web is here to stay for the next decade
and will revolutionise the way we live right from communicating with our
family and friends to conducting businesses. In a nutshell, the Social Web
provides a unique platform for digitising our behavior which has enormous
potential to change the way we conduct ourselves.
The phenomenon of the Social Web has caught the attention of research
communities in the last decade. Researchers from diverse disciplines ranging
from social and behavior science to computer science have started looking at
the issues and challenges in the Social Web. Within computer science,
researchers from established research areas such as language technologies
and machine learning to emerging research areas such as service and cloud
computing have started looking at computational and development challenges
brought by Social Web. With the continued reports of breach of trust and
hoax news spreading from social media to mainstream news, trusting the
Social Web has become one of the major challenges that need to be addressed.
This special issue focuses on this challenge.
The Social Web provides a unique platform for sharing information and
knowledge for individuals as well as businesses.
As the Social Web is inherently open and free, it lacks the central control
or authority that asserts the trustworthiness of the people and content in
it. It is hard to distinguish what is rumor and what is truth. For example,
many statesmen/stateswomen (e.g., Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev,
Margaret Thatcher, etc) and celebrities (e.g, Lady Gaga, Eddie Murphy, etc.)
have witness their own death in the Social Web. This fake death news has
been filtered into the mainstream newspapers and televisions without much
scrutiny and verification due to the high competition of being the first to
report the news. On the flip side, Social Media plays a major role in
reporting political news (such as the Arab Spring) and natural disasters
(such as the Japan Tsunami and the New Zealand earthquakes), and it helps to
consolidate the global efforts towards them. Furthermore, people have
started relying on Social Web from travel to healthcare advice. Therefore,
it is important to address the issue of trust in the Social Web in order to
take full advantage of it for the betterment of human society. In the Social
Web, there are three essential entities that are involved in trust directly:
people, service providers and contents. In this special issue, we are
looking for innovative technologies and solutions from diverse disciplines
that address the issue of trust in the Social Web.
The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited
to:
- Algorithms and protocol of establishing trust in the Social Web
- Propagation of trust/rumor in the Social Web
- Mechanisms of establishing credibility of people in the Social Web
- Provenance of content in the Social Web
- Privacy in the Social Web
- Analysis of trust in existing Social Web platforms
- Case studies
Paper Submission:
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has
neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.
Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of World Wide Web Journal a
web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online
system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their
manuscript.
Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://WWWJ.edmgr.com under the article
type "Trusting the Social Web." This online system offers easy and
straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range
of submission file formats.
Important Dates:
- Submission due: December 2012
- Notification of review results: March 2013
- Submission of revised version: May 2013
- Notification of second round: June 2013
- Final manuscript due: July 2013
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