OSNED 2018 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the WWW 2018 OSNED workshop (Online Social Networks and Media: Network Properties and Dynamics). Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM) are one of the most disruptive communication platforms of the last 15 years with high socio-economic value. Within this framework, the network properties of OSNEM can be used to capture multiple phenomena related to OSNEM, at different logical layers, from a technical perspective (e.g., OSNEM data management and information diffusion), as well as a societal perspective (e.g., the OSNEM users' social structures). Moreover, the analysis of network dynamics represents one of the biggest challenges that emerged in recent years within the network science community.