Dear all, We'd like to invite your submissions to the 15th ACM Web Science Conference to be held as a hybrid online/offline event April 30 – May 1, 2023 in Austin, Texas, USA (co-located with The Web Conference). The emphasis this year is on Inequalities in the Face of Concurrent Crises. You can find the full call here: [1]https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ Please upload your submissions by November 30, 2023 via EasyChair: [2]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 Feel free to contact us with any questions at websci23papers@easychair.org Program Committee Chairs Katherine Ognyanova Harsh Taneja Ingmar Weber ______________________________________________________ CFP: 15th ACM Web Science Conference (#WebSci23) Hybrid event, Austin, Texas, USA (co-located with The Web Conference) April 30 – May 1, 2023 [3]https://websci23.webscience.org/ Submissions accepted at [4]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 by November 30, 2023 Important Dates * Wed, November 30, 2022 Paper submission deadline * Tue, January 31, 2023 Notification * Tue, February 28, 2023 Camera-ready versions due * Sun-Mon, April 30 – May 1, 2023 Conference dates Possible topics across methodological approaches and digital contexts include but are not limited to: Understanding the Web * Trends in globalization, fragmentation, rejoining, and Balkanization of the Web * The architecture and philosophy of the Web * Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web * Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies Making the Web Inclusive * Issues of discrimination and fairness * Intersectionality and design justice in questions of marginalization and inequality * Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people on the Web * Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity, security and trust * Inclusion, literacy and the digital divide The Web and Everyday Life * Social machines, crowd computing and collective intelligence * Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation * Legal issues, including rights and accountability for AI actors * Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web * Politics and social activism on the Web * Online education and remote learning * Health and well-being online * Social presence in online professional event spaces * The Web as a source of news and information Doing Web Science * Data curation, Web archives and stewardship in Web Science * Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of information * Analysis and modelling of human vs automatic behavior (e.g., bots) * Analysis of online social and information networks * Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data (e.g., fake content, spam) Format of the submissions Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: [5]https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 All accepted submissions will be assigned an oral presentation (of two different lengths). There are two submission formats. Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages (inclusive of references, appendices, etc.). Full papers typically report on mature and completed projects. Short papers should be up to 5 pages (inclusive of references, appendices, etc.). Short papers will primarily report on high-quality ongoing work not mature enough for a full-length publication. More details and template links are available at [6]https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ For any questions and queries regarding the paper submission, please contact the chairs at [7]websci23papers@easychair.org Katherine Ognyanova (Rutgers University) Harsh Taneja (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign) Ingmar Weber (Saarland University) References 1. https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ 2. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 3. https://websci23.webscience.org/ 4. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 5. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci23 6. https://websci23.webscience.org/call-for-papers/ 7. mailto:websci23papers@easychair.org