[Commlist] CfP: ACM Web Science Conference

*Call for Papers <https://websci24.org/call-for-papers/>*

ACM WebSci’24 ● 16^th  ACM Web Science Conference
May 21 – May 24, 2024 ● Stuttgart, Germany

*Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society*

*https://websci24.webscience.org/* <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
    <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 
<https://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 
<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/>*

 1. “By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby
    acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM
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    your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM
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    so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.
    ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently
    made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published
    authors

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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 /at/ easychair.org)
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