ECSM 2024- Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Social Media

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 11th European Conference on Social Media (ECSM 2024), hosted by the University of Brighton, UK on 30-31 May 2024. The Conference is Dr Panagiotis Fotaris from the University of Brighton.

ECSM is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 11th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research.

The opening keynote presentation is given by Dr Martin De Saulles, Principal Lecturer at The University of Brighton on Establishing Trust in an AI-driven Economy. On the second day, Dr Tony Sampson from The University of Essex, will give a talk on the subject: Return to Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Social Media.

With an initial submission of 138 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 37 Academic research papers, 7 PhD research papers, 2 Masters Research papers and 2 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovak Republic, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Türkiye, UAE, UK, USA and Vietnam.