WebSci 2018 - 2018 10th ACM Conference on Web Science

The 10th International ACM Conference on Web Science in 2018 (WebSci’18) is a unique conference where a multitude of disciplines converge in a creative and critical dialogue with the aim of understanding the Web and its impacts. WebSci’18 welcomes participation from diverse fields including (but not limited to) art, anthropology, computer and information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. We particularly welcome contributions that seek to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. We are seeking papers that describe original research, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, as well as work that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas and important research-in-progress.
Possible topics for submissions include (but are not limited to) the following:
Current theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges of Web Science:
Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people in the Web
Interdisciplinarity in Web Science
Modeling Web-related structures, data, users and behaviours
Impact of big data on the development of Web Science
Web Science approaches to data science, data analytics, and the Web of data
Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data
Data curation and stewardship in Web Science
Sharing Web research data, Web archiving, and scholarly uses of Web archives
The psychological, sociological, legal and technological aspects related to the temporal and spatial dimensions of the web as a repository of information
Web practices of individuals, collectives, institutions, and platforms:
The architecture and philosophy of the Web
Social machines, crowd computing, collective intelligence, and collaborative production
Health and well-being online
Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web
Web Science and the Internet of Things
Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation
Analysis of online social and information networks, social media analyses
Governance, democracy, access, intellectual property:
Personal data and privacy
Anonymity, security and trust for Web access
Web access, literacy, divides, and development
Knowledge, education, and scholarship on and through the Web