Call for Workshop and Tutorials

The 14th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci22) is soliciting proposals for workshops and tutorials that address the way Web Science research can illuminate key contemporary issues and global challenges. Workshops should reflect the inter- and multidisciplinary nature of Web Science. Tutorials could cover a wide variety of Web Science approaches and methods, including but not limited to techniques for data collection, processing, analysis, as well as substantive interpretation, best practices, and ethics. Examples of potential WebSci workshop areas include but are not limited to:

• Misinformation and propaganda on the Web
• Online health and wellness (especially concerning the COVID-19 pandemic)
• Online mental health
• The interplay between AI and the Web
• Using Web Science for social good
• Collective intelligence, crowdsourcing
• Bias on the Web
• Data ethics and algorithmic accountability
• Digital inequalities: access, quality, and participation
• Information privacy and cybersecurity
• Learning and education on the Web
• Social connections and social influence on the Web
• Social inclusion and exclusion on the Web
• Internet politics and political participation
• Internet, Globalization and Cultural Identities
• The evolution of social media services
• The future of the Web
• Cybercrime and safety
• Digital Humanitarianism
• ICT for development
• Climate Change and digital carbon footprints
• Paid and unpaid work, the gig economy
• Aging and generations (different practices and attitudes towards the Web)
• Global south and globalization
• Gender and sexualities (the Web as safe/unsafe space, space for mobilization)

Workshops and tutorials can be either on-site or fully online. A “call for papers/contributions” is optional. Workshops/tutorials with alternative interactive modes such as e.g. round table discussions or design/co-creation sessions can also be proposed. You can propose a program committee (PC) with content experts for your event.

When accepted, make sure your event is held in a timezone amenable to the participants. Each workshop or tutorial should have a web address containing all information about the venue, call for contributions, deadlines, modality, language etc. Workshops and tutorials can be held in any language.

Proposal Format

Proposals can be up to 3 pages long and should include the following information (please submit your proposal in English):

• Workshop/tutorial title.
• Workshop/tutorial summary (1-2 paragraphs).
• Workshop/tutorial description, including the motivation and goals of the proposal and its relevance to the field of Web Science.
• Workshop/tutorial schedule and activities, including the format, proposed activities (panels, sessions, interactive exercises, etc.), the invited speakers or panelists, the modality (on-site or online).
• Workshop/tutorial organizer information, including names, affiliations, emails, and personal websites. Please indicate who would be the primary contact person for the submission. 
• Please indicate if the workshop has been run in the past.
• Target audience and audience size: the expected number and type of attendees and any information about the required skills or tools with which participants need to be familiar.
• The primary language(s) of the workshop/tutorial (i.e., English, Chinese).
• The desired time zone for the workshop/tutorial.
• The workshop/tutorial will be: (i) onsite in Barcelona or (ii) fully online?
• Special requirements or equipment, if any.

Proposal Submissions

Proposals must be submitted to EasyChair by February 21, 2022.

Workshop and tutorial proposals will be evaluated based on their relevance, timeliness, originality and the potential to address important questions and attract audiences from different disciplines. Relevance to the interdisciplinary field of Web Science is a prerequisite for all submissions. Workshop and tutorial notifications will be sent by March 7, 2022. If inviting peer-reviewed workshop papers, workshop organizers are requested to have the paper submission deadline in their workshops to be no later than April 9, 2022.

Proceedings

Workshop organizers are free to publish workshop proceedings. WebSci22 offers the possibility to include workshop papers as a companion collection of the ACM WebSci22 proceedings. In this case, workshop schedules must be aligned with the schedule for the publication of the overall proceedings, i.e. camera-ready papers need to be submitted to us by 12 May 2022. This is a strict deadline, and we will not be able to include any papers not received by this date.

Important Dates

Feb 21, 2022: Workshop and Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline

Mar 07, 2022: Notifications

Apr 09, 2022: Workshop Paper Submission Deadline

May 12, 2022: Camera-ready Deadline for the Companion Proceedings

Workshop and tutorials will run on June 26th, 2022

Track Chairs

• Anna Bon, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Srinath Srinivasa, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore, India

Contact

websci22-workshops-tutorials@easychair.org