ICWSM 2026 - International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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About ICWSM
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
is a forum for researchers from multiple disciplines to come
together to share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information,
and learn about cutting-edge research in diverse fields with the
common theme of investigating the interplay of web and society.
This overall theme includes research on new perspectives in social
theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing
digital traces of human activities or behaviors in social
settings. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that
blends social science and computational approaches to answer
important and challenging questions about human social behavior
through online traces while advancing computational tools for vast
and unstructured data.
ICWSM, now in its twentieth year, has become one of the premier
venues for computational social science and social computing.
Previous years of ICWSM
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featured papers, posters, and demos that draw upon a wide spectrum
of disciplines from computational sciences (e.g., network science,
artificial intelligence, machine learning, text/data mining,
natural language processing, image/multimedia processing, human
computer interaction) to social sciences (e.g., sociology,
communication, political science, anthropology, psychology,
economics, digital humanities). Note that papers focusing solely
on the advancement of algorithmic components, or which use Web
data only as an artifact (for instance, in method evaluation) are
out of scope. Ideal submissions should speak to research questions
of societal relevance.
We invite original work that utilizes diverse digitally mediated
data sources such as web navigation traces, traces from apps,
social media traces, data from online platforms such as microblogs
(e.g., X/ formerly Twitter), wiki-based knowledge sharing sites
(e.g., Wikipedia), online news media (e.g., Huffington Post),
forums, mailing lists, newsgroups, community media sites (e.g.,
YouTube, Instagram), Q&A sites (e.g., Quora, Stack Overflow), user
review sites (e.g., Yelp, Amazon.com), search platforms and social
curation sites (e.g., Reddit, Pinterest). Adapting to our
continuously evolving field, we are open to new forms of
technologically mediated human or society-related data sources
(e.g., mobility traces, satellite data) and methods that advance
our understanding of society and the influence of the web on it.
The uniqueness of the venue and the quality of submissions have
contributed to a rapidly growing conference, and a competitive
acceptance rate of approximately 20 to 30% for full-length
research papers published in the proceedings by the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI)
Conference Topics
ICWSM encourages submissions across diverse research areas. Topics
of interest include (but are not limited to):
Social network analysis and community detection
Information diffusion and viral phenomena in the web or online
social spaces
Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance identification
Misinformation, fact-checking, and credibility of online content
Web mining, information extraction, and information retrieval on
online platforms
Privacy and security on the web
Digital humanities and cultural analytics using online traces
Political communication, civic engagement, and predictability of
real-world phenomena using or related to web or digital-trace data
Health and well-being in digital spaces
Text categorization, topic recognition, and demographic
identification using online behavior or digital-trace data
Trend identification, tracking, and time series forecasting for
web data
Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream
media
Qualitative and quantitative studies of online platforms
Linguistic analyses of human behavior on the web
Psychological, personality-based, and ethnographic studies of
web-based platforms
Engagement, motivations, incentives, and gamification on the web
Social innovation and effecting change through the web
New web applications, interfaces, and interaction techniques
Internet usage on mobile devices, location, and human mobility
Organizational and group behavior mediated by web technology
Interpersonal communication mediated by web and social media
In recent submission cycles, we have seen an increase in papers
that are focused more on large language models rather than on how
this technology is situated within the online information
environment or how this technology impacts online spaces. Following
our evaluation of these papers and community feedback over the past
few ICWSM conferences, we are therefore clarifying the following
policy on the kinds of LLM papers that are explicitly out of scope
for ICWSM:
Using LLMs as tools to process web and social media (W&SM) data
to make contributions about the nature, structure, or performance
of LLMs without an evaluation on W&SM data
Proposing an LLM tool for a task related to the analysis of W&SM
and testing it on non-W&SM data
Proposing an LLM tool for a task not related to the analysis of
W&SM
Using LLM as a tool to process non-W&SM data to make any sort of
conclusions
Papers that fall into these categories will be desk rejected early
in the review process.
Past ICWSM Conferences