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{{Event
 | Acronym = SSM 2008
 | Title = Workshop on Search in Social Media
 | Type = Workshop
 | Series = 
 | Field = Information retrieval
 | Homepage = ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/
 | Start date = Oct 30, 2008 
 | End date =  Oct 30, 2008
 | City= Napa Valley
 | State = California
 | Country =  USA
 | Abstract deadline = 
 | Submission deadline = Jul 20, 2008
 | Notification = Aug 10, 2008
 | Camera ready = 
}}

Social applications are the fastest growing segment of the web. Social media are a fascinating phenomenon because they establish new forums for content creation, allow people to connect to each other and share information, and permit novel applications at the intersection of people and information. However, whereas in the general web search is a critical application that drives usability, social media has been primarily popular for connecting people, not for finding information. While there has been progress on searching particular kinds of social media, such as blogs, search in others (facebook/myspace/flickr) are not as well understood. The purpose of this workshop is to focus the attention of the research community on this emerging topic, and to bring together information retrieval and social media researchers to consider the following questions: How should we search in social media? What are the needs of users, and models of those needs, specific to social media search? What models make the most sense? How does search interact with existing uses of social media? What works and what doesn't?

==Areas of Interest==

* Blog search
* Search in folksonomies / searching tagged data
* Do tags or folksonomies improve search?
* Searching Wikipedia discussions and revision history
* Searching within social networks
* Expert finding within social information networks
* Searching social media for information that is timely, reliable, hot
* Studies of users searching in social media
* Characterizing and understanding the users tasks
* New social search applications
* User tasks for social network analysis
* Searching online discussions, mailing lists, forums
* Searching in community help and question-answering environments
* Interactions between searching and browsing
* Spam in social media
* Adversarial interactions such as vote and digg spam
Acronym	SSM 2008 +
End date	October 30, 2008 +
Event type	Workshop +
Has coordinates	38° 17' 50", -122° 17' 8"Latitude: 38.297136111111 Longitude: -122.28553055556 +
Has location city	Napa Valley +
Has location country	Category:USA +
Has location state	California +
Homepage	http://ir.mathcs.emory.edu/SSM2008/ +
IsA	Event +
Notification	August 10, 2008 +
Start date	October 30, 2008 +
Submission deadline	July 20, 2008 +
Title	Workshop on Search in Social Media +