Program schedule is tentative.
All times are in Central European Summer Time (CEST) or GMT+2 timezones (UTC+2)
Workshops, Tutorials and Brave Conversations Day
Sunday 26th
| onsite/hybrid | online | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning session 10 to 14hs UTC: 08-12hs | Workshop Assessing The Ethical Implications Of Artificial Intelligence In Policing | Tutorial Coornet: detecting problematic online coordinate link-sharing behavior | Workshop 1st WORKSHOP ON BLOCKCHAINS and AI FOR COMMUNITY | |
| Lunch break | ||||
| Afternoon session 15 to 19hs UTC: 13-17hs | Workshop Documenting Web Data for Social Research (This workshop will start 14.30) | Special event Brave conversations | Workshop General Collective Intelligence and Web Science | |
Conference general overview
| Monday 27th | Tuesday 28th | Wednesday 29th | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 UTC: 06:30 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 UTC: 07:00 | Conference opening/welcome and awards announcements! Zoom link | ||
| 09:30 UTC: 07:30 | SESSION 1: Methods and Algorithms Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom link | SESSION 4: Bias and Propaganda Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link | SESSION 7: Harmful Content Detection Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link |
| 10:00 UTC: 08:00 | |||
| 10:30 UTC: 08:30 | |||
| 11:00 UTC: 09:00 | Break | Break | Break |
| 11:30 UTC: 09:30 | SESSION 2: Crowds and Social Movements Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom link | SESSION 5: Politics Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link | SESSION 8: Hypertext conference papers Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link |
| 12:00 UTC: 10:00 | |||
| 12:30 UTC: 10:30 | |||
| 13:00 UTC: 11:00 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:30 UTC: 11:30 | |||
| 14:00 UTC: 12:00 | |||
| 14:30 UTC: 12:30 | KEYNOTE “Research at the Service of Free Knowledge” Leila Zia – Wikimedia Foundation Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom link | PANEL: Democracy and disinformation Moderator: Carlos Castillo Ruth Rodriguez-Martinez Frederic Guerrero Sole Emanuele Cozzo Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link | KEYNOTE : Inbodied Interaction: principles for hypertext and web scientists to consider how their work can help #makeNormalBetter for all, at scale. m.c. schraefel – University of Southampton Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link |
| 15:00 UTC: 13:00 | |||
| 15:30 UTC: 13:30 | Break | [Small break from 15:30 to 15:45] Keynote by the winners of the new WebSci test of time award Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link | |
| 16:00 UTC: 14:00 | SESSION 3: Platforms and Communities Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom link | Break | |
| 16:30 UTC: 14:30 | SESSION 6: Health Q&A Link (Sli.do) Zoom Link | Handover from WebSci to Hypertext (including SIGWEB townhall) Zoom Link | |
| 17:00 UTC: 15:00 | |||
| 17:30 UTC: 15:30 | Poster Sessions | ||
| 18:00 UTC: 16:00 | RECEPTION | ||
| 18:30 UTC: 16:30 | |||
| 19:00 UTC: 17:00 | |||
| 19:30 UTC: 17:30 | Dinner at YAYA Poblenou Registration required until June 26th | ||
Monday 27th
SESSION 1: Methods and Algorithms
09:30 to 11:00 hs
| Beatrice Perez, Sara Machado, Jerone Andrews and Nicolas Kourtellis | I call BS: Fraud Detection in Crowdfunding Campaigns |
| Lynnette Ng and Kathleen Carley | Online Coordination: Methods and Comparative Case Studies of Coordinated Groups across Four Events in the United States |
| Amit Kumar and Marc Spaniol | There is a fine Line between Personalization and Surveillance: Semantic User Interest Tracing via Entity-level Analytics |
| Florian Plötzky and Wolf-Tilo Balke | It’s the Same Old Story! Enriching Event-Centric Knowledge Graphs by Narrative Aspects |
| Matthias Götze, Srdjan Matic, Costas Iordanou, Georgios Smaragdakis and Nikolaos Laoutaris | Measuring Web Cookies in Governmental Websites |
| Samujjwal Ghosh, Subhadeep Maji and Maunendra Sankar Desarkar | GNoM: Graph Neural Network Enhanced Language Models for Disaster Related Multilingual Text Classification |
SESSION 2: Crowds and Social Movements
11:30 to 13:00 hs
| Pradeep Kumar Murukannaiah, Nirav Ajmeri and Munindar P. Singh | Enhancing Creativity as Innovation via Asynchronous Crowdwork |
| Marisa Vasconcelos, Priscila Rocha, Julio Nogima and Rogerio Paula | Characterizing the Social Ties between Black and Tech communities on Twitter |
| Barbara Gomes Ribeiro, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Virgilio Almeida and Wagner Meira Jr. | Analyzing the “Sleeping Giants” Activism Model in Brazil |
| Shaoyang Fan, Pınar Barlas, Evgenia Christoforou, Jahna Otterbacher, Shazia Sadiq and Gianluca Demartini | Socio-Economic Diversity in Human Annotations |
| Cristina Menghini, Justin Uhr, Shahrzad Haddadan, Ashley Champagne, Bjorn Sandstede and Sohini Ramachandran | The Drift of #MyBodyMyChoice Discourse on Twitter |
| Yu Yamashita, Hiroyoshi Ito, Kei Wakabayashi, Masaki Kobayashi and Atsuyuki Morishima | HAEM: Obtaining Higher-Quality Classification Task Results with AI workers |
Keynote: Research at the Service of Free Knowledge
Leila Zia – Wikimedia Foundation
14:30 to 15:30 hs
Abstract: With roughly 15 billion monthly pageviews, 10 million
monthly edits, and more than 56 million articles across 300+
languages, Wikipedia has become a canonical part of the Free Knowledge ecosystem: enabling people to have access to knowledge and empowering them to participate in the discourse of gathering and sharing the sum of all human knowledge. By 2030, the Wikimedia projects, which include Wikipedia, aspire to break down the social, political, and technical
barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free
knowledge. In this presentation, I will talk about research in this
direction and will share some of our success stories, as well as a
few of the biggest challenges we face today. I close by sharing some
of the open research questions and directions as well as resources
available to engage with research on the Wikimedia projects.
SESSION 3: Platforms and Communities
16:00 to 17:30 hs
| Haewoon Kwak | You Have Earned a Trophy: Characterize In-Game Achievements and Their Completions |
| Sara De Candia, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Corrado Monti and Francesco Bonchi | Social Norms on Reddit: A Demographic Analysis |
| Radin Hamidi Rad, Ebrahim Bagheri, Mehdi Kargar, Divesh Srivastava and Jaroslaw Szlichta | Subgraph Representation Learning for Team Mining |
| Margherita Gambini, Tiziano Fagni, Fabrizio Falchi and Maurizio Tesconi | On pushing DeepFake Tweet Detection capabilities to the limits |
| Chen Ling, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro and Gianluca Stringhini | Slapping Cats, Bopping Heads, and Oreo Shakes: Understanding Indicators of Virality in TikTok Short Videos |
| Cheick Tidiane Ba, Andrea Michienzi, Barbara Guidi, Matteo Zignani, Laura Ricci and Sabrina Gaito | Fork-based user migration in Blockchain Online Social Media |
| Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Marília R. Nepomuceno and Tom Theile | Desaparecidxs: characterizing the population of missing children using Twitter |
Tuesday 28th
SESSION 4: Bias and Propaganda
09:30 to 11:00 hs
| Kristina Hristakieva, Stefano Cresci, Giovanni Da San Martino, Mauro Conti and Preslav Nakov | The Spread of Propaganda by Coordinated Communities on Social Media |
| Soon-Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen and Bernard Jansen | The Effect of Hiding the Count of Dislikes on the Use of the YouTube Like and Dislike Features |
| Keith Harrigian and Mark Dredze | The Problem of Semantic Shift in Longitudinal Monitoring of Social Media |
| Fabian Haak and Philipp Schaer | Auditing Search Query Suggestion Bias Through Recursive Algorithm Interrogation |
| Antonio Ferrara, Lisette Espin-Noboa, Fariba Karimi and Claudia Wagner | Link recommendations: their impact on network structure and minorities |
| Saloni Dash, Arshia Arya, Sukhnidh Kaur and Joyojeet Pal | Narrative Building in Propaganda Networks on Indian Twitter |
| Anja Klasnja, Negar Arabzadeh, Mahbod Mehrvarz and Ebrahim Bagheri | On the Characteristics of Ranking-based Gender Bias Measures |
SESSION 5: Politics
11:30 to 13:00 hs
| Matthew Childs, Cody Buntain, Milo Trujillo and Benjamin Horne | Characterizing YouTube and BitChute Content and Mobilizers During U.S. Election Fraud Discussions on Twitter |
| Kareem Darwish | News Consumption in Time of Conflict: 2021 Palestinian-Israel War as an Example |
| Ashiqur Khudabukhsh, Rupak Sarkar, Mark Kamlet and Tom Mitchell | Fringe News Networks: Dynamics of US News Viewership Following the 2020 Presidential Election |
| Kumari Neha, Vibhu Agrawal, Vishwesh Kumar, Tushar Mohan, Abhishek Chopra, Arun Balaji Buduru, Rajesh Sharma and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru | A Tale of Two sides: Study of Protesters and Counter-protesters on #CitizenshipAmendmentAct Campaign on Twitter |
| Cagri Toraman, Furkan Şahinuç and Eyup Halit Yilmaz | BlackLivesMatter 2020: An Analysis of Deleted and Suspended Users in Twitter |
| Amber Chin, Carolina Coimbra Vieira and Jisu Kim | Evaluating Digital Polarization in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from the German Bundestag |
| Eduardo Graells-Garrido and Ricardo Baeza-Yates | Bots don’t Vote, but They Surely Bother! |
Panel: Democracy and disinformation
14:30 to 16:00 hs
| Emanuele Cozzo | Online disinformation and deliberation: social media at the crossroads. |
| Ruth Rodriguez-Martinez | FACCTMedia Research Project: Defeating disinformation. |
| Frederic Guerrero Sole | Data-driven far-right populism, social media, and the future of democracy |
SESSION 6: Health
16:30 to 18:00 hs
| Abraham Sanders, Debjani Ray-Majumder, John Erickson and Kristin Bennett | Should we tweet this? Generative response modeling for predicting reception of public health messaging on Twitter. |
| Tamar Mitts, Nilima Pisharody and Jacob Shapiro | Removal of Anti-Vaccine Content Impacts Social Media Discourse |
| Xinchen Yu, Zhuoli Xie, Afra Mashhadi and Lingzi Hong | Multi-task Models for Multi-faceted Classification of Pandemic Information on Social Media |
| Muheng Yan, Yu-Ru Lin and Wen-Ting Chung | Are Mutated Misinformation More Contagious? A Case Study of COVID-19 Misinformation on Twitter |
| Gianluca Nogara, Padinjaredath Suresh Vishnuprasad, Felipe Cardoso, Omran Ayoub, Silvia Giordano and Luca Luceri | The Disinformation Dozen: An Exploratory Analysis of Covid-19 Disinformation Proliferation on Twitter |
| Jeevith Bopaiah, Kiran Garimella and Ramakanth Kavuluru | Opinions on Homeopathy for COVID-19 on Twitter |
| Lydia Manikonda, Rui Fan and Mee Young Um | Shift of User Attitudes about Anti-Asian Hate on Reddit Before and During COVID-19 |
Wednesday 29th
SESSION 7: Harmful Content Detection
09:30 to 11:00 hs
| Myrsini Gkolemi, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Evangelos Markatos and Nicolas Kourtellis | YouTubers Not madeForKids: Detecting Channels Sharing Inappropriate Videos targeting Children |
| Jiawen Zhu, Roy Ka-Wei Lee and Wen Haw Chong | Multimodal Zero-Shot Hateful Meme Detection |
| Aditi Bagora, Kamal Shrestha, Kaushal Maurya and Maunendra Desarkar | Hostility Detection in Online Hindi-English code-mixed Conversations |
| Yida Mu, Pu Niu and Nikolaos Aletras | Identifying and Characterizing Active Citizens who Refute Misinformation in Social Media |
| Andrea Sipka, Aniko Hannak and Aleksandra Urman | Comparing the Language of QAnon-Related Content on Parler, Gab, and Twitter |
| Mohamed Bahgat, Steve Wilson and Walid Magdy | LIWC-UD: Classifying Online Slang Terms into LIWC Categories |
SESSION 8: Hypertext conference papers
11:30 to 13:00 hs
| Caglar Demir, Julian Lienen and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo | Kronecker Decomposition for Knowledge Graph Embeddings |
| Sayar Ghosh Roy, Anshul Padhi, Risubh Jain, Manish Gupta and Vasudeva Varma | Towards Proactively Forecasting Sentence-Specific Information Popularity within Online News Documents |
| Fedor Vitiugin and Carlos Castillo | Cross-Lingual Query-Based Summarization of Crisis-Related Social Media: An Abstractive Approach Using Transformers |
| Mithun Das, Somnath Banerjee and Animesh Mukherjee | Data Bootstrapping Approaches to Improve Low Resource Abusive Language Detection for Indic Languages |
KEYNOTE: Inbodied Interaction: principles for hypertext and web scientists to consider how their work can help #makeNormalBetter for all, at scale.
m.c. schraefel – University of Southampton
14:30 to 15:30hs
Why do we (need to) exercise? Meditate? Challenge ourselves to think new thoughts? Why do we wake up feeling fantastic some mornings and not others? Why is being online both easier and harder to communicate?
We are physical creatures; even our mighty brains are physical systems. Indeed, all our experiences are mediated through our bodies – and not just the brain part. And yet most of us know very little about how we work as these complex, interconnected physical systems. Without such understanding, however, the choices we make around crafting “new normals” may miss an opportunity to make them “better” normals – for our health – and related quality of life.
Inbodied Interaction offers models designed specifically to help technologists like hypertext and web scientists align our designs, our systems, with our physical selves to let us thrive. We’ll look at a few of these like the body as site of adaptation, Tuning to explore and test health practices for resilience. We’ll touch on concepts like experiment in a box and Future Ghosts to explore how to co-design healthful cultures of practice and associated infrastructure to let health be as effortless as sitting at a desk or turning on a tap for clean water is today.
The idea is: With these models, we will have a firmer, inbodied foundation from which to design in healthier “new” normals that can help “makeNormalBetter for all, at scale.