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

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-JonesAndrea 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 DacanayCyd 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 GoreSanjay 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 ContractorJaime Teevan
16:30 – 17:30 Closing Ceremony, Awards and Announcing WebSci’22