PhD Symposium – June 21
Welcome to the PhD symposium of the 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, an opportunity for PhD students at different stages of their candidature to find an international platform to showcase their research goals and to receive feedback on their ongoing research. We are very pleased to have a large range of interdisciplinary research covering the spectrum of Web Science research from a wonderful cohort of early career researchers.
The symposium comprises topics ranging from digital legacy, online hate, music consumption, innovation to COVID-19 vaccine and community resilience and we are very grateful to the symposium committee for their invaluable efforts in reviewing papers and providing constructive feedback to authors. We hope that you will find this programme interesting and thought-provoking and that the PhD Symposium will continue to serve as an important forum for research trainees around the world to share their work in the field of Web Science.
Awards are listed below next to the relevant presentation. Congratulations to the winner.
Programme
All times shown are GMT+1/UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
15 mins presentation + 15 mins discussion per student
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Symposium overview and introduction of mentors |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Duncan Reid Factors That May Prevent Meaningful Digital Legacy |
| 12:15 – 12:45 | Allison Noble Researching the Impact of Music Streaming on Social and Personal Listening Behaviours |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | Nirmal Sivaraman Exo-SIR: An Epidemiological Model to Quantify the Exogenous Information Diffusion and its Application to Detect Events |
| 13:15 – 13:45 | Raneem Alharthi Recognizing Hate-prone Characteristics of Online Hate Speech Targets |
| 13:45 – 14:30 | Social engagement |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Dawa Chang Exploring the Potential of Knowledge Graphs to Support Distant Knowledge Search for Innovation |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Yadira Sanchez Benitez Algorithmic ecologies of justice: Using computational social science methods to co-design tools of resistance, resilience and care with communities |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Malak Alsabban Comparing two sentiment analysis approaches by understand the hesitancy to COVID-19 vaccine based on Twitter data in two cultures |
| 16:00 – 16:30 |
Neha Keshan Best PhD Symposium Presentation Award
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| 16:30 – 17:30 | Mentor advising panel / General Q&A |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Closing Remarks |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Keynote Talk: Matthew Weber Digital Data and a Multilevel Perspective of Institutions on the Web Chair: Wendy Hall |