The annual Web Science Trust (WST) Test of Time Award has been awarded to Lars Backstrom, Paolo Boldi, Marco Rosa, Johan Ugander and Sebastiano Vigna for their paper titled “Four degrees of separation”. The authors are the fourth group of researchers to receive the WST Test of Time Award, which was announced during the closing […]
WebSci’24 keynote talks have been kindly released for public catch-up viewing by the ACM. Please note this is a playlist of several talks.
During the closing ceremony of the 16th ACM WebSci conference we learned where/when the 17th conference will be held next year. One of our newer WSTNet Labs, Rutgers University, will be our hosts next year in New Brunswick, New Jersey in the USA. The conference will be run May 20-23 2025 and our host will […]
The annual Web Science Trust (WST) Test of Time Award has been presented to Albert Solé Ribalta (UOC), Manlio De Domenico (UniPD), Sergio Gomez (URV), and Alex Arenas (URV), for their work titled “Centrality rankings in multiplex networks”. The authors are the third group of researchers to receive the WST Test of Time Award which was […]
WebSci’24 promises a rich exploration of web science through: Workshops Tutorials A Ph.D. symposium Five inspiring keynotes. In addition to keynotes by Eszter Hargittai, Jie Tang, Dirk Hovy, Hannes Werthner, and Jennifer Pan, we look forward to the panel discussion, including Steffen Staab, with the theme: “Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society.” Don’t miss […]
The annual Web Science Trust (WST) Test of Time Award has been awarded to Nam P. Nguyen (Towson University), Guanhua Yan (Binghamton University), My T. Thai (University of Florida) and Stephan Eidenbenz (Los Alamos National Laboratory) for their work titled “Containment of Misinformation Spread in Online Social Networks”. The authors are the second group of […]
15th ACM Web Science Conference: Inequalities in the Face of Concurrent Crises 30 April – 1 May 2023 Austin, Texas, USA (and online) https://websci23.webscience.org/ WebSci and SIGWEB are pleased to announce the availability of a fund to help support attendance to WebSci 2023 in Austin, TX, USA. Travel Grants WebSci’23 travel grants provide support up […]
Deadline: 3 February 2023 ********************************************************************************************************** The Steering Committee of ACM WebSci is seeking statements of interest from organizations or consortia interested in hosting the 16th or 17th ACM Web Science Conferences (WebSci 2024 and WebSci 2025). The conference series usually moves between the continents. We will accept bids from all locations, but for the 2024 […]
The Web Science Trust (WST) announced today that the inaugural Web Science Trust Test of Time Award was presented to the authors of the paper “Social media as a measurement tool of depression in populations”, Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech), Scott Counts (Microsoft Research) and Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research). The authors are the first recipients […]
It is still time to register for this year’s ACM Web Science Conference! The ACM Web Science Conference will take place in Barcelona on June 26-29, 2022 and will be co-located with UMAP’22 and HT’22 conferences. WebSci’22 is organized as a hybrid conference and will also enable online participation. RegistrationRegistration fees start at 50,- Euro […]