International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2027)

The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2027) is a forum for researchers from diverse disciplines to explore the impact of the web and social media on human behavior, utilizing computational and social science approaches to analyze digital traces of human activities in various online settings.

Key Topics

• Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery
• Privacy and security on the web
• Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using online traces
• Qualitative and quantitative studies of online platforms
• Engagement, motivations, incentives, and gamification on the web
• Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting for web data
• Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
• Measuring predictability of real-world phenomena based on digital trace data, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health
• Information retrieval on online platforms
• Credibility of online content
• Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media
• Psychological, personality-based, and ethnographic studies of web-based platforms
• Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
• New web applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
• Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion/stance identification and extraction
• Social innovation and effecting change through the web
• Internet usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior
• Organizational and group behavior mediated by web technology; interpersonal communication mediated by web and social media

Who should attend

• Researchers in computational social science and social computing
• Academics in sociology, communication, political science, anthropology, and psychology
• Data scientists and engineers specializing in machine learning, AI, and natural language processing
• Professionals in web technologies and social media platforms
• Experts in digital humanities and mobile internet usage
• Researchers studying human behavior and psychology in online environments
• Technology specialists focusing on privacy, security, and online content credibility
• Government and policy makers involved in social media and web governance
• Innovators in trend forecasting and social media analytics