The theme of this year's conference is Social Data and Social Networking:
Connecting Social Science Communities across the Globe.



Social science has begun to feel the impact of the dramatic shift in communication
patterns globally, where social networking and other digital media trends are
changing how social scientists study the world around them. This theme is intended
to stimulate discussion about the impact of social networking on the creation,
collection, sharing, storage, preservation, dissemination, confidentiality, licensing of,
and access to data. Of particular interest is how social connectivity has facilitated
multi-site and cross-national social science research.