Programme
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June 21 – Monday
| 09:00 – 13:00 | Brave Conversations |
| 11:30 – 17:45 | PhD Symposium |
| See individual Workshops/Tutorials for timings | Workshops & Tutorials |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Keynote Talk 1: Matthew Weber Digital Data and a Multilevel Perspective of Institutions on the Web Chair: Wendy Hall |
June 22 – Tuesday
| See individual Workshops/Tutorials for timings | Workshops & Tutorials |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Spotlight Panel 1: The Coded Gaze: algorithmic bias, facial recognition and beyond – How research can change the law and influence people Chair: Lucy Hooberman Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Rumman Chowdhury, Margaret Mitchell |
| 20:30 – 21:00 | BBC Digital Planet: Bias in AI – what next? Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Rumman Chowdhury, Lucy Hooberman, Margaret Mitchell |
June 23 – Wednesday
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Meet the Authors Four Internets: Data, Geopolitics and the Governance of Cyberspace Kieron O’Hara & Wendy Hall Chair: Anni Rowland-Campbell |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Opening Ceremony Welcome by President of the ACM: Gabriele Kotsis & President-Elect of ICA: Noshir Contractor General Chair: Wendy Hall |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Keynote Talk 2: Martha Lane Fox In conversation with Wendy Hall on the future of the internet Chair: Wendy Hall |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Break |
| 16:45 – 18:15 | Paper Session 1: Does the system work? Evaluating Tools and Functions Session Chair: Maria Glenski |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | Break |
| 18:30 – 19:30 | Spotlight Panel 2: COVID-19 and Society Chair: Katrin Weller Dirk Brockmann, Eszter Hargittai, Katherine Ognyanova, Ian Milligan |
| 19:30 – 19:45 | Break |
| 19:45 – 21:15 | Paper Session 2: Critical Methods for Examining the Web Session Chair: Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda |
June 24 – Thursday
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Spotlight Panel 3: The Future of the Web in a Post-COVID World Co-Chairs: Jie Tang, Wendy Hall Tat-Seng Chua, James Hendler, Xia Yin This panel will be in English and Chinese. |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Paper Session 3: Developing New Web Research Using NLP and Machine Learning Session Chair: Stefan Dietze |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Paper Session 4: Problematic Online Content Session Chair: Enrico Mariconti |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Break |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Keynote Talk 3: Daniel J. Weitzner Why is our society having such a hard time governing the new digital computing infastructure? Chair: Noshir Contractor |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Spotlight Panel 4: AI, Media and the Future of News on the Web Chair: Matthew Weber Rory Cellan-Jones, Andrea Guzman, Cameron Hickey, Amanda Stent |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 – 17:15 | Paper Session 5: Extremism, Polarisation and Controversy: The New Reality of the Web Session Chair: Ingmar Weber |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Break |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Spotlight Panel 5: Directions in Digital Government Chair: Clare Hooper Honey Dacanay, Cyd Harrell, Gordon Ross, Nigel Shadbolt |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Break |
| 19:00 – 19:30 | Ultimate Web-Sci Garden Quiz Quiz Master: Taha Yasseri, Location: Gather Town Garden Join us for the best yet Web Science themed quiz in the Gather Town Garden on Thursday at 19:00. You do not need to bring anything with you but enthusiasm, agility, and the best of your Web Science knowledge! The Quiz Master, Taha Yasseri, will challenge you at so many different levels and the best performing participant will be praised during the Closing Ceremony on Friday. This could be one of the highest achievements to go on your CV! |
June 25 – Friday
| 08:00 – 08:45 | Keynote Talk 4: Jennifer Zhu Scott Global Digital Infrastructure in a Post-Pandemic World Chair: JP Rangaswami |
| 08:45 – 09:00 | Break |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Spotlight Panel 6: Does Decentralisation Help the Disenfranchised? Chair: Jennifer Zhu Scott Meltem Demirors, Glenn Gore, Sanjay Jain, JP Rangaswami |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break |
| 10:15 – 11:45 | Paper Session 6: Data Sharing, Data Use and the Elusiveness of Privacy Session Chair: Luca Maria Aiello |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Break |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Paper Session 7: Web Tracking and Internet Accessibility Session Chair: Yelena Mejova |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Break |
| 14:15 – 15:15 | Keynote Talk 5: Deen Freelon The Post-API Age Reconsidered: Web Science in the ’20s and Beyond Chair: Noshir Contractor |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Spotlight Panel 7: The Future of the Web and Society Chair: Wendy Hall Sinan Aral, Azeem Azhar, Noshir Contractor, Jaime Teevan |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Closing Ceremony, Awards and Announcing WebSci’22 |