[Commlist] Call for Papers: ACM Web Science Conference (#WebSci22)

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14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022 (WebSci'22)

27-30 June, 2022

Hybrid conference: Barcelona, Spain, and online (co-located with 
Hypertext 2022)

Deadline for paper submissions: Feb 10, 2022

https://websci22.webscience.org/ <https://websci22.webscience.org/>

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we invite you to submit your contributions to our articles for the 14th 
ACM Web Science Conference on 26 - 29 June 2022 (WebSci'22, Hybrid 
Conference: in Barcelona, Spain, and online).

The 14th International ACM Conference Web Science in 2022 (WebSci’22) is 
an interdisciplinary conference where a multitude of research 
disciplines converge with the purpose of creating greater insight into a 
complex global Web than the sum of their individual parts. We invite 
participation from diverse fields including computer and information 
sciences, communication, economics, informatics, law, linguistics, 
philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Contributions may be analytical, conceptual, creative, critical, 
predictive, theoretical (or all of the above) and should aim, wherever 
possible, to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. The conference 
provides a platform to a range of practitioners from Ph.D. students to 
experienced researchers and ideas ranging from early work through 
projects as well as final analysis and completed publishable work. We 
look to evaluate and value the impact of the Web Science approach, its 
current theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges as 
well as Web practices of individuals, collectives, institutions, and 
platforms.

The ACM Web Science Conference 2022 will run as a hybrid conference, 
where authors will present their work either in-person or remotely to 
participants gathering at the conference venue in Barcelona, or online. 
The conference will be co-located with ACM HyperText, which is scheduled 
for June 29th to July 3rd, 2022 - https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/ 
<https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/>.

THE OLD VS. THE NEW NORMAL

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Web-based technologies have proven to be playing a vital role in 
enabling us to cope with the global pandemic. Having experienced two 
years of “crisis,” many new norms have been forming, both socially and 
technologically. While some people long to return to how things were 
before the pandemic, others are questioning whether that is a state 
worth returning to. The main theme of this year’s conference, therefore, 
is the old vs. the new normal. Even though the conference accepts a wide 
range of topics (see below), papers discussing this overall issue would 
be particularly welcomed.

Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the 
complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society, and vice versa. As 
such, the field of Web Science is particularly well situated to address 
pressing issues of our time.

Methodologically, Web Science is a discipline that is agnostic to 
specific methods. We welcome quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods 
research, including methods from the social sciences and computer 
science. In addition, we welcome work that explores the ethics of 
Web-based data collection and research and those which have a broader 
perspective on the Web and that combine analyses of Web data and other 
types of data (e.g., from surveys or interviews) to better understand 
user behaviour (i.e., online and offline).

Building on our theme for 2022, we especially welcome contributions on:

* Successful cases of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary Web research

* Trends in globalisation, fragmentation, rejoining, and Balkanisation 
of the Web

* Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web

* Interrogate questions of discrimination, representation and fairness

* Bring lenses such as intersectionality or design justice to questions 
of marginalisation and inequality

* Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and 
people in the Web

* Modeling Web-related structures, data, users and behaviours

* Impact of AI and machine learning on the development of Web Science

* Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data (e.g., fake 
content, spam, algorithmic and data biases)

* Data curation, Web archives and stewardship in Web Science

* Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity, security 
and trust

* Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of information

* The architecture and philosophy of the Web

* Social machines, crowd computing and collective intelligence

* Analysis and modeling of human vs. automatic behaviour (e.g., bots) 
and their influence on the structure of the Web and responding behaviour

* Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies

* Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation

* Analysis of online social and information networks

* Legal issues including rights and accountability for AI actors

* Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web

* Inclusion, literacy and the digital divide

* Politics and social activism on the Web

* Online education and remote learning

* Health and well-being online

IMPORTANT DATES

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Thu, February 10, 2022 Paper submission deadline

Thu, March 31, 2022 Notification

Thu, May 12, 2022 Camera-ready versions due

Sun-Wed, June 26-29 Conference dates

FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS

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Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci22 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci22>

There are two submission formats:

* Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages (inclusive of references, 
appendices, etc.). Full papers typically report on mature and completed 
projects.

* Short papers should be up to 5 pages (inclusive of references, 
appendices, etc.). Short papers will be primarily reporting 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). The option of additional poster presentations and 
other details will be decided in due time depending on the technical 
setup and other factors.

All authors of accepted papers (including those who opt out of 
proceedings) are expected to present their work (in-person or virtually) 
at the conference.

Please carefully check the conference Website for information on 
formatting and templates.

Review is double-blind. Please anonymize your submission. All 
contributions will be judged by the Program Committee upon rigorous peer 
review standards for quality and fit the conference, by at least three 
referees. Additionally, each paper will be assigned to a Senior Program 
Committee member to ensure review quality.

Proceedings will be published open access through ACM’s OpenTOC system. 
For authors who wish to opt out of publication proceedings, this option 
will be made available upon acceptance.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS

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Oshani Seneviratne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Ingmar Weber (Qatar Computing Research Institute)

Taha Yasseri (University College Dublin)

For any questions and queries regarding the paper submission, please 
contact the pc chairs at (websci22 /at/ easychair.org) 
<mailto:(websci22 /at/ easychair.org)>

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