Newsletter & Call for Papers WebSci'18

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Newsletter & Call for Papers WebSci'18
10th International ACM Web Science Conference 2018
27-30 May 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Web Science is the premier interdisciplinary conference on understanding the World Wide Web in all its facets - technological, social, cultural, political. WebSci'18 is held 27-30 May 2018 at VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Below are highlights of the program and call for papers.

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Tim Berner's-Lee: Turing Lecture
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A highlight of this year's WebSci conference is that Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and the recipient of the 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award, more popularly known as the Nobel Prize for Informatics, will deliver his Turing Lecture as a keynote at the WebSci�18 Conference, on Tuesday 29 May 2018.

Other keynotes focus on Doing Interdisciplinary Research (Prof. Dr. Jos� van Dijck, President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW) and on the Future of Semantics on the Web (Prof. Dr. John Domingue, Director of the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK).

Furthermore, there is a strong and diverse Events Programme on Sunday 27 May 2018 of workshops on special topics (listed below), an Interdisciplinary PhD Symposium, and a Plenary Poster Session (Monday 28 May). Submission to these events is open; information is to be found on
the conference website at: 
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https://websci18.webscience.org <https://websci18.webscience.org/>
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PAPERS FOR THE MAIN CONFERENCE DUE FEBRUARY 25, 2018, Midnight UTC
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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

Submission
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WebSci18 is a selective conference with a rigorous review process. Reviewing will be single-blind (authors are identified on submissions; reviewers are anonymized). To accommodate the distinct traditions of Web Science�s many disciplines, we allow for two different paper submission formats: full papers and short papers.

Full papers are up to 8-10 pages long, ACM double column. Full papers should present new and substantial theoretical, empirical, methodological, or policy-oriented contributions to research and/or practice. Full papers include an abstract, an introduction, sections and especially significant conclusions and should be well on top of the current literature in the field as evidenced by appropriate referencing. Full papers should be original work that has not been previously published. Full papers are presented through regular talks. The program committee may decide to recommend full papers that were rejected as such to be accepted as short papers, if the authors agree.

Short papers are 3-5 pages long, ACM double column. Short papers should present new ideas and/or work in progress that may have significant impact to or implications for the progress of the Web and Web Science. Short papers should include an abstract, an introductory paragraph and appropriate references. Short papers should be original work that has not been previously published. Short papers are assigned short talks.

Both types of accepted submissions will be included in the proceedings, which will be archived by the ACM Digital Library. However, in order to accommodate the publication priorities of different scientific communities, we allow authors to opt out of having their contribution appear in the published proceedings (thus allowing the authors to retain the right to publish later in academic journals).

Furthermore, the WebSci18 Scientific Program Chairs intend to organize a special issue of The Journal of Web Science. Authors of selected full and short papers and extended abstracts will be contacted and invited to submit a full-length journal paper for the special issue. All papers invited to this submission will go through a peer-review process before receiving final approval.

Submission Instructions:
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Full and short paper submissions should be formatted according to the official ACM SIG Conference Proceedings, see�http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>�(From the zip files provided, please select the SIGCONF version). 
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You can find the WebSci�18 paper submission pages at Easychair:�https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci18 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci18>
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Important dates
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* February 25, 2018 (Sunday): Submission of long papers and short papers: PDFs of these submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair by this date.
* March 23 , 2018 (Friday): Notification of Acceptance: Acceptances and rejections of long papers and short papers are sent out.
* April 13, 2018 (Friday): Final Publication version due. Presenters who do not opt out of having their contribution appear in the ACM proceedings must upload the camera-ready copy of their paper to EasyChair by this date.

Program Chairs
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Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, the Netherlands
Matthew S. Weber, Rutgers, USA

Senior PC members:
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Ricardo BaezaYates, Yahoo Labs
Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California
Susan Halford, University of Southampton
Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Katharina KinderKurlanda, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Markus LuczakRoesch, Victoria University of Wellington
Wagner Meira Jr., UFMG
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover
Isabella Peters, ZBW
Steffen Staab, Institut WeST, University KoblenzLandau and WAIS, University of Southampton
Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Events Program � Sunday 27 May 2018
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The following events on special topics will take place, as parallel sessions on Sunday.
* Evolution of the Darknet. (Gert Jan van Hardeveld).
* Linked Learning 2018: 7th International Workshop on Learning and Education with Web Data (#LILE2018). (Stefan Dietze, Mathieu D�Aquin, Dragan Gasevic and Joachim Kimmerle.)
* The Web and the Digital Divide: 5th International Symposium �Perspectives on ICT4D� (#ICT4D2018). (Anna Bon, Victor de Boer, Christophe Gu�ret, Gayo Diallo and Jaap Gordijn.)
* Ethics and Privacy for Social Machines, Social Groups and Aggregations.
(Kieron O�Hara, Reuben Binns, Claudia Pagliari, Anni Rowland-Campbell, Linnet Taylor, Thanassis Tiropanis, Max Van Kleek, Jun Zhao, Nigel Shadbolt and Wendy Hall.)
* Confronting Ethical Challenges in Web Science Research
(Michael Zimmer, Charles Ess and Anja Bechmann.)
* When Digital Sociology met Web Science: Toward an understanding of how did we get here and where are we going through the political economy of digital technology. (Christopher Till, Cristina Costa, Huw Davies and Michael Saker.)
* 1st International Workshop on Online Information Quality. (Davide Ceolin, Lora Aroyo, Urs Gasser, Paolo Missier and Julia Noordegraaf.)
* What can be known from the web? Source criticism beyond bots, agents and trolls in social and cultural web research. (Gertraud Koch.)
* Integrating Web Science in Higher Education (Su White, Manuel Leon and Adriana Wilde.)
* Interdisciplinary PhD Symposium  (Pete Burnap, Leslie Carr, Mark Weal, Ivar Vermeulen)

For the above events, submission of papers is open, see the respective events websites. For the Interdisciplinary PhD Symposium on Sunday 27 May 2018 and the main conference poster session on Monday 28 May 2018, you can find the WebSci�18 paper submission pages at 
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Easychair:�https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci18 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci18>
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