| Time: | May 22, 2024, 9:00 a.m. (CEST) – May 24, 2024, 4:00 p.m. (CEST) |
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May 21, 2024, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| Event language: | English |
| Venue: | University of Stuttgart Universitätsstraße 32-34 70569 Stuttgart-Vaihingen Germany Link: WebSci'24 Website |
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16th ACM WebScience Conference 2024
Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society
May 21-24, 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany
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 techniques from the social sciences and computer science. 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.
Call for PhD Symposium
Important Dates (tentative):
- Mon., February 26, 2024 MON., MARCH 18, 2024 (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Paper Submission Deadline
- Mon., March 18, 2024 THUR., MARCH 28, 2024 (DEADLINE EXTENDED): Notification
- Mon., April 8, 2024: Camera-ready Versions due
- Tues., May 21, 2024: PhD Symposium
Link to digital program
Keynote by: Eszter Hargittai |
Eszter Hargittai is Professor and holds the Chair of Internet Use and Society at the Department of Communication and Media Research of the University of Zurich (UZH). She is a Fellow of the International Communication Association and an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and her BA in Sociology from Smith College. Prior to joining UZH, she was the Delaney Family Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. |
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Keynote by: Jie Tang |
Jie Tang is a WeBank Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of AAAI, and a Fellow of IEEE. His interests include artificial general intelligence, data mining, social networks, and machine learning. He served as General Co-Chair of WWW’23, and PC Co-Chair of WWW’21, CIKM’16, WSDM’15, and EiC of IEEE T. on Big Data and AI Open J. He is leading several major efforts on building large language models in China. He also invented AMiner.cn, which has attracted 30 million users from 220 countries/regions in the world. He was honored with the SIGKDD Test-of-Time Award, the 2nd National Award for Science&Technology, NSFC for Distinguished Young Scholar, and SIGKDD Service Award. |
Keynote by:
Dirk Hovy |
Dirk Hovy is a professor in the computing sciences department at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He is also the scientific director of the Data and Marketing insights research unit. Before that, he was faculty and postdoc in Copenhagen, got a PhD in NLP from USC, and a master’s degree in linguistics from Marburg, Germany. He is interested in the interaction between language, society, and machine learning, or what language can tell us about society and what computers can tell us about language. He has authored over 100 articles on these topics, including three best paper awards. He is also the author of two textbooks on using text analysis in Python for social science research (https://bit.ly/3dhaEQ7 and https://bit.ly/3sYiwMH). Dirk has organized one conference and several workshops (on abusive language, ethics in NLP, and computational social science and sociolinguistics). He received an ERC Starting Grant in 2020 for a project on demographic factors and bias in NLP models. Outside of work, Dirk enjoys cooking, leather-crafting, and picking up heavy things to put them back down. |
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Keynote by: Hannes Werthner |
Hannes Werthner is a retired Computer Science Professor at the TU Wien, Austria, where he also served as the Dean of the faculty of Informatics. Prior to joining TU Wien, he had professorships at Austrian and international Universities. His research is in fields such as Decision Support Systems, E-Commerce and Recommender Systems. Besides research and teaching he founded several initiatives such as the Vienna PhD School of Informatics or the i2c / Informatics Innovation Center. He carefully observes how computer science and information technology are changing the world and us. This is his motivation for Digital Humanism, whose Vienna Manifesto he initiated in 2019. Since then he is active in this field – see also his latest contribution: “Introduction to Digital Humanism” (link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45304-5) |
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Keynote by: Jennifer Pan |
Jennifer Pan is a political scientist whose research focuses on political communication, digital media, and authoritarian politics. She is the Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of Communication and (by courtesy) Political Science and Sociology, and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Dr. Pan’s research uses experimental and computational methods with large-scale datasets on political activity to answer questions about the role of digital media in authoritarian and democratic politics, including how political censorship, propaganda, and information manipulation work in the digital age and how preferences and behaviors are shaped as a result. |
Registration
Registration is open!
Please register via the following link: https://eveeno.com/websci24
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