Reports of the 2015 Workshops Held at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

People have embraced social media as a means to express their experiences within and knowledge about particular places, and researchers have continued to analyze these digital traces in order to better understand social activities within particular places. Geotagged social media data such as photos, tweets, check-ins, audio, video, and status updates have proliferated and reveal individual and collective senses of place and local insights into interactions between people and place. However, these digital traces alone cannot reveal a holistic sense of place and placemaking. The workshop aimed to investigate definitions of placemaking — commonly understood as a collaborative, community, or human-centered approach to the planning, design, social production of public spaces in order to cultivate shared value and recognize specific physical, cultural, and social identities and experiences in a particular place — and how placemaking intersects with digital and social media. One of the key goals of the workshop was to create a hands-on experience and encour-