Call for Papers

Recent advances in social media and communication technologies are expanding the scope of computer-mediated communication (CMC) research. Contemporary digital platforms and communicative modalities, including short-video services (e.g., TikTok) and community-oriented environments (e.g., Discord), give rise to large-scale corpora of user-generated content and richly multimodal forms of interaction. Due to their unprecedented popularity, questions surrounding how meaning is produced in contemporary multimodal social media environments are becoming increasingly important; yet, "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). In light of these considerations, we welcome submissions that develop, analyze, and computationally process CMC and social media corpora from a variety of methodological perspectives. To accommodate the breadth of current research in this area, we employ a broad conceptualization of CMC and social media, covering a wide spectrum of digital communication practices, including email, forums, chats and messenger applications (e.g., WhatsApp, Discord), social networking platforms (Facebook, 𝕏/Twitter, Instagram), short-video and streaming services (TikTok, YouTube), online gaming communities, virtual worlds, and other emerging media.

Submission Types

  • Short papers (3–5 pages) — for oral presentations (follow the template below).
  • Abstracts (max. 300 words) — for poster presentations.

Review & Presentation

Submissions (in English) will be double-blind peer reviewed by two or three members of the scientific committee.

  • Accepted short papers → 30-minute slots (20-min talk + 10-min discussion).
  • Accepted abstracts → poster session (work-in-progress/early-stage research).
  • Proceedings: all accepted papers and abstracts will be available online at the start of the conference.
  • Post-conference: selected contributors will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue or edited volume.

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions on CMC and social media, including but not limited to:

Development of CMC / Social Media Corpora

  • End-to-end corpus creation: from data collection to publication
  • Open-access data; ethical and GDPR compliance
  • Annotation: genres, linguistic layers, metadata
  • Multimodal and large-scale ("big data") corpora
  • Legal aspects of sampling, distribution, long-term archiving

Analysis of CMC / Social Media Corpora

  • Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic characteristics
  • Multimodal (incl. visual) analysis
  • Multilingualism and code-switching
  • CMC in language education

NLP for CMC / Social Media

  • Normalization; PoS tagging; lemmatization; pseudonymization/anonymization
  • Syntactic parsing; semantic annotation
  • LLMs/AI and computational methods for CMC analysis

Templates & Submission

Use the official templates and follow the anonymization instructions inside the files.

Word template (.docx) LaTeX template (.zip) Open in Overleaf (template)

How to Submit

Submit via the conference submission portal: https://www.conftool.net/cmc2026. Ensure your PDF is anonymized for double-blind review.