Dear All, FYI... Best Taha *CALL FOR PAPERS* Title: *SocInfo2017* Conference Dates: *13-15 September*Paper Submission Deadline: *31 May 2017* Location: *Wolfson College, Oxford* *Read more about the conference and about the call for papers on the **Conference website <http://socinfo2017.oii.ox.ac.uk/>**.* We are delighted to welcome the 9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2017) to Oxford, UK, in September 2017. SocInfo is an interdisciplinary venue for researchers from Computer Science, Informatics, Social Sciences and Management Sciences to share ideas and opinions, and present original research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena. The ultimate goal of Social Informatics is to create better understanding of socially-centric platforms not just as a technology, but also as a set of social phenomena. To that end, we are inviting interdisciplinary papers, on applying information technology in the study of social phenomena, on applying social concepts in the design of information systems, on applying methods from the social sciences in the study of social computing and information systems, on applying computational algorithms to facilitate the study of social systems and human social dynamics, and on designing information and communication technologies that consider social context. -- Dr Taha Yasseri @TahaYasseri <https://twitter.com/TahaYasseri> ==*New Article*== Understanding and coping with extremism in an online collaborative environment: A data-driven modeling <http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0173561> Csilla Rudas, Olivér Surányi, *Taha Yasseri*, and János Török PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173561 (2017). ============= http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/ Research Fellow in Computational Social Science, Oxford Internet Institute, Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and Faculty Fellow, Alan Turing Institute for Data Science. Tel. +44-1865-287229 1 St. Giles Oxford OX1 3JS UK