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Call for Papers
<https://websci24.org/call-for-papers/>
ACM WebSci’24 ● 16th ACM Web Science Conference
May 21 – May 24, 2024 ● Stuttgart, Germany
Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society
https://websci24.webscience.org/
Important Dates
* Thu, November 30, 2023: Paper submission deadline
* Wed, January 31, 2024: Notification
* Thu, February 29, 2024: Camera-ready versions due
* Tue-Fri, May 21 – May 24, 2024: Conference dates
All dates are 23:59 Anywhere on earth
time
<https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth>
About the Web Science Conference
Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to
understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on
society and vice versa. The discipline is well situated to address
pressing issues of our time by incorporating various scientific
approaches. We welcome quantitative, qualitative, and mixed
methods research, including social sciences and computer science
techniques. In addition, we are interested in work exploring
Web-based data collection and research ethics. We also encourage
studies that combine analyses of Web data and other types of data
(e.g., from surveys or interviews) and help better understand user
behavior online and offline.
Possible topics across methodological approaches and digital
contexts include but are not limited to:
Understanding the Web
* Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web
* Trends in globalization, fragmentation, and polarization of the
Web
* The architecture and philosophy of the Web
* Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies
Making the Web Inclusive
* Issues of discrimination and fairness
* Intersectionality and design justice in questions of
marginalization and inequality
* Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms,
and people on the Web
* Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity,
security, and trust
* Inclusion, literacy and the digital divide
The Web and Society
* Social machines, crowd computing and collective intelligence
* Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation
* Legal issues, including rights and accountability for AI actors
* Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web
* Politics and social activism on the Web
* Online education and remote learning
* Health and well-being online
* The role of the Web in the future of (augmented) work
* The Web as a source of news and information, and misinformation
Doing Web Science
* Data curation, Web archives and stewardship in Web Science
* Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of
information
* Analysis and modeling of human vs. automatic behavior (e.g.,
bots)
* Analysis of online social and information networks
* Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data
(e.g., fake content, spam)
2024 Emphasis: Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society
In addition to the topics at the heart of Web Science, we also
welcome submissions addressing the interplay between the Web, AI
and society. New advances in AI are revolutionizing the way in
which people use the Web and interact through it. As these
technologies develop, it is crucial to examine their effect on
society and the socio-technical environment in which we find
ourselves. We are nearing the crossroads wherein content on the
Web will increasingly be automatically generated, blended with
that created by humans. This creates new potential yet brings new
challenges and exacerbates existing ones in relation to data
quality and misinformation. Additionally, we need to consider the
role of the Web as a source of data for AI, including privacy and
copyright concerns, as well as bias and representativity of
resulting systems. The potential impact of new AI tools on the
nature of work may bring a transformation of some careers while
creating whole new ones. This year’s conference especially
encourages contributions documenting different uses of AI in
relation to how people use the Web, and in the ways the Web
affects the creation and deployment of AI tools.
Format of the submissions
Please upload your submissions via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmwebsci24
There are two submission formats.
* Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages (including
references, appendices, etc.). Full papers typically report on
mature and completed projects.
* Short papers should be up to 5 pages (including references,
appendices, etc.). Short papers will primarily report on
high-quality ongoing work not mature enough for a full-length
publication.
All accepted submissions will be assigned an oral presentation (of
two different lengths).
All papers should adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings
template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the
ACM template, either in Microsoft Word format (available
athttps://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template under
“Word Authors”) or with the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf
platform, which is available at
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machinery-acm-sig-proceedings-template/bmvfhcdnxfty.
In particular; please ensure that you are using the two-column
version of the appropriate template.
All contributions will be judged by the Program Committee upon
rigorous peer review standards for quality and fit for the
conference by at least three referees. Additionally, each paper
will be assigned to a Senior Program Committee member to ensure
review quality.
WebSci-2024 review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize
your submission: do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s)
at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other
acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. References to
authors’ own prior relevant work should be included but should not
specify that this is the authors’ own work. It is up to the
authors’ discretion how much to further modify the body of the
paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for anonymity does
not extend outside of the review process, e.g., the authors can
decide how widely to distribute their papers over the Internet.
Even in cases where the author’s identity is known to a reviewer,
the double-blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the
importance of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits
without regard to the authors’ reputation.
For authors who wish to opt-out of publication proceedings, this
option will be made available upon acceptance. This will encourage
the participation of researchers from the social sciences that
prefer to publish their work as journal articles. All authors of
accepted papers (including those who opt out of proceedings) are
expected to present their work at the conference.
ACM Policies
<https://websci24.org/acm-policy-2/>
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Program Committee Chairs:
Oshani Seneviratne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Luca Maria Aiello (IT University of Copenhagen)
Yelena Mejova (ISI Foundation)
For any questions and queries regarding the paper submission,
please contact the chairs at
acmwebsci24@easychair.org<mailto:acmwebsci24@easychair.org>.
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