The two-volume set LNCS 10046 and 10047 constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International
Conference on Social Informatics SocInfo 2016 held in Bellevue WA USA in November 2016.
The 36 full papers and 39 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 120 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: networks
communities and groups politics news and events markets crowds and consumers and
privacy health and well-being.