The Second  International Symposium on Collaboration, Social  Computing, New Media, and Networks (SoMNet 2013) will be held as part of the 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (http://cts2013.cisedu.info/) May 20-24, 2013 in San Diego, California, USA.  The Symposium will address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multi-disciplinary field of social computing and new media.  Participation is invited from researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties (computer science, linguistics, psychology, statistics, sociology, multimedia and semantic web technologies).

• On May 20, there will be a day long hands-on tutorial on using NodeXL to perform social media network analysis.
• On May 21, there will be a symposium with invited speakers presenting research and methods for understanding social media.