36.3744, Confs: 13th International Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (Finland)

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Date: 04-Dec-2025
From: Steven Coats [steven.coats at oulu.fi]
Subject: 13th International Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities


13th International Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and
Social Media Corpora for the Humanities
Short Title: CMC2026

Date: 27-Aug-2026 - 28-Aug-2026
Location: Oulu, Finland
Contact: Steven Coats
Contact Email: cmc2026 at oulu.fi
Meeting URL: https://cmc2026.org

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Apr-2026

Recent advances in social media and communication technologies are
expanding the scope of computer-mediated communication (CMC) research.
New platforms and formats, from short video apps like TikTok to
community platforms like Discord, are generating massive volumes of
user-generated content and multimodal interactions. Due to their
unprecedented popularity, “the question of how meaning is produced in
these videos is becoming increasingly important… However, systematic
approaches to the analysis of these meanings are still scarce”
(Grzenkowicz & Wildfeuer, 2025, p. 1143). At the same time, AI
techniques are opening novel avenues for analysis of digital
discourse. Social media provides “a massive repository of real-time
data” that demands “advanced tools capable of understanding complex
language, context, and framing”, and “LLMs offer potential in this
domain, with their ability to process large amounts of text and
extract meaningful insights” (Nguyen et al., 2025, p. 1331). We adhere
to a broad definition of CMC and social media, encompassing a wide
range of digital communication media – including email, forums, chats
and messenger apps (e.g. WhatsApp, Discord), social networks
(Facebook, 𝕏/Twitter, Instagram), short-video and streaming platforms
(TikTok, YouTube), online gaming and virtual worlds, and other
emerging channels.
Submission Types:
1. Short Papers (Oral Presentations): 3–5 pages, anonymized short
papers for researchers who wish to give a talk. These submissions
should follow the conference template and report completed or
well-advanced research. Authors of accepted short papers will be
allotted a 30-minute slot (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes
Q&A) to present their work. All accepted short papers will be
published in the conference proceedings.
2. Abstracts (Poster Presentations): up to 300 words (excluding
references), anonymized abstracts for work-in-progress, early-stage
research, software or corpus demonstrations to be presented as
posters. Authors of accepted abstracts will present their work during
the poster session at the conference, allowing one-on-one discussion
and feedback.
Review & Presentation:
All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review by at least
two members of the scientific committee. Each submission will be
evaluated for relevance to the conference’s themes, methodological
soundness, and contribution to the field. Based on the reviews,
submissions may be accepted for oral talk or poster presentation as
appropriate.
Authors of accepted short papers will give oral presentations in
themed panels (each talk 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of
discussion). Authors of accepted poster abstracts will present their
work during a dedicated poster and demo session, where interactive
discussion is encouraged. At the start of the conference, all accepted
short papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the
conference, authors of select top papers may be invited to submit
extended versions for publication in a special issue or edited volume,
showcasing significant advances in CMC and social media corpus
research.
Topics of Interest:
We invite submissions on CMC and social media, including but not
limited to the following topics of interest:
Development of CMC Corpora / Social Media Corpora
 - Building and curating CMC corpora: from data collection (APIs, web
scraping) to publication and sharing
 - Open access data for CMC research: addressing ethical challenges
and GDPR compliance in data sharing
 - Annotating CMC data: frameworks for labeling genres, linguistic
features, metadata (including novel phenomena like emojis, memes)
 - Multimodal and multimedia corpora: handling texts, images, audio,
video (e.g. short video content) in unified corpora
 - Big data and streaming corpora: managing large-scale social media
datasets, real-time data collection, and data sampling strategies
 - Legal issues in social media data: copyright, terms-of-service
limitations, and long-term archiving of corpora from platforms
(including new platforms like TikTok or Discord)
Analysis of CMC Corpora / Social Media Communication
 - Sociolinguistic studies of online communication (language
variation, stylistic adaptation, community norms in CMC)
 - Discourse analysis of digital interactions (conversation
structures, politeness, argumentation in forums, comment threads,
group chats, etc.)
 - Linguistic characteristics of CMC (slang, abbreviations, emojis,
code-switching, vernaculars across different platforms)
 - Multimodal communication in social media (integration of text with
visuals, videos, GIFs; meaning-making through memes, hashtags, and
trends)
 - Multilingualism and code-switching in online contexts
(cross-lingual communication, translation in user-generated content)
 - CMC in language education and digital literacy (use of social media
corpora for language learning, teaching communication skills online)
 - Platform-specific communication practices (e.g. discourse patterns
unique to TikTok, Instagram stories, or Discord communities, and how
they evolve)
Computational Processing (NLP) of CMC / Social Media Data
 - Text normalization for noisy CMC data (handling misspellings,
abbreviations, emoji to text, spoken-to-written style)
 - Part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization for social media text
(adapting NLP tools to non-standard grammar and orthography)
 - Anonymization and pseudonymization techniques (protecting user
privacy in corpora while preserving analytical value)
 - Syntactic parsing and semantic analysis of informal or
ungrammatical CMC text (challenges for parser models on tweets, chats,
etc.)
 - Transformer and LLM-based approaches for CMC analysis (applying
large language models to classify content, summarize discussions, or
generate synthetic data for under-resourced CMC domains)
 - Detection of harmful content and misinformation (e.g. hate speech
identification, toxicity filtering, fact-checking and misinformation
detection in social media corpora using AI/NLP methods)
 - Multimodal NLP techniques for social media (e.g. analyzing text in
conjunction with images or videos, OCR on memes, speech-to-text in
voice chats)
Important Dates (EEST where specified):
Deadline paper/abstract submission: 15 April 2026, 23:59 EEST
Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2026
Deadline revised paper/abstract submission: 15 July 2026, 23:59 EEST
Deadline registration for participation: 1 August 2026
Conference: Thursday 27 – Friday 28 August 2026
Templates & Submission Guidelines
 - Language & Anonymity: Submissions must be written in English and
formatted for anonymous review (please remove author names and any
identifying information).
 - Length Requirements: Short paper submissions should not exceed 5
pages (excluding references) following the provided template. Poster
abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references).
References for poster abstracts are not counted in the word limit.
 - Templates: To ensure a uniform appearance, authors must use the
official conference templates. Templates are available for both
Microsoft Word and LaTeX (stand-alone and Overleaf template) on the
conference website. Please do not alter margins, font sizes, or other
format settings in the templates. Submissions not adhering to the
template format may be returned for revision.
How to Submit:
All submissions should be made electronically through the conference’s
online submission system (https://conftool.net/cmc2026). If you do not
already have an account at ConfTool, you will need to create one prior
to submission.
When submitting, please select the appropriate track for your
contribution (short paper or poster/demo abstract). You will be asked
to enter title, abstract, author information (for camera-ready
version), and keywords. Ensure that the PDF of your submission is
anonymized for review.
For any questions regarding the submission process or topic
suitability, please contact the organizers at cmc2026 at oulu.fi. We look
forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to the conference!
Organizing Committee:
Steven Coats
Maarit Siromaa
Jarkko Toikkanen
Hanne Juntunen
References:
Grzenkowicz, M., & Wildfeuer, J. (2025). Addressing TikTok’s
multimodal complexity: A multi-level annotation scheme for the
audio-visual design of short video content. Digital Scholarship in the
Humanities, 40(4), 1143–1166. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf047
Nguyen, V. C., Jain, M., Chauhan, A., Soled, H. J., Lesmes, S. A., Li,
Z., Birnbaum, M. L., Tang, S. X., Kumar, S., & De Choudhury, M.
(2025). Supporters and Skeptics: LLM-Based Analysis of Engagement with
Mental Health (Mis)Information Content on Video-Sharing Platforms.
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social
Media, 19, 1329–1345. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v19i1.35875



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