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Social Media Technology Conference and Workshop

The second annual Social Media Technology Conference & Workshop will bring together social media scholars and experts to share perspectives on the technical, ethical, economic, legal, political and cultural implications of social media technology use.

Browsing Room of Founders Library

Browsing Room, Founders Library

Conference Room A, Carnegie Building

8:30am • Registration and Continental Breakfast
11:15am • No Business Like Show Business in Online News Entertainment
11:15am • Concurrent Session 2: Social Media Use While Watching Prime-Time TV
11:15am • Get to Know Memes: Using Memes in Marketing
11:15am • Concurrent Session 2: Intersections between the Entertainment and Social Media
12:30pm • Lunch and Keynote Address: Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, J-Lab, American University
2:30pm • * Research Roundtables
2:30pm • Research Roundtable: Evaluation of Digital Divide From The Perspective of Social Media Technologies: Case Study: Plotting 3 Graphs of Facebook Usage Statistics in the World
2:30pm • Spurring A Collective Agenda: Afrocentricity, Digital Literacy & Social Media
3:15pm • Demystifying the World of Digital Media
5:00pm • The Effects of the Internet on Interpersonal Communication
5:00pm • The Seven Sisters and Their Siblings Go Digital: An Analysis of Women’s Magazine Content and Social Media on Websites, iPads and Cell Phones
5:00pm • Social Meandering: The Communal Nature of Social Media & Its Impact on Culture, Industry & Academia
5:00pm • Too Busy to Speak Out: Organizational Engagement of Time-Constrained Social Media Users Through Twibbons

Howard University

Presentation Room/Brick Room, Carnegie Building

Digital Auditorium – Blackburn Center

Forum – Blackburn Center

Howard University

Room 148-150 of Blackburn Center

8:30am • Registration and Continental Breakfast