Call for Papers

The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2025 will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 23-26, 2025.

ICWSM is a premier venue for computational social science and social computing, bringing together researchers from various disciplines to investigate the interplay of the web and society. It focuses on research that blends social science and computational approaches to answer important questions about human social behavior through online traces.

Topics of Interest

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media
• Qualitative and quantitative studies of online platforms
• Subjectivity in textual data; sentiment analysis; polarity/opinion/stance identification and extraction, linguistic analyses of human behavior on the web
• Information retrieval on online platforms
• Credibility of online content
• Measuring predictability of real-world phenomena based on digital trace data, e.g., spanning politics, finance, and health
• Social network analysis; communities identification; expertise and authority discovery
• Trust; reputation; recommendation systems
• Text categorization; topic recognition; demographic/gender/age identification
• Privacy and security on the web
• Trend identification and tracking; time series forecasting for web data
• New web applications; interfaces; interaction techniques
• Engagement, motivations, incentives, and gamification on the web
• Social innovation and effecting change through the web
• Psychological, personality-based, and ethnographic studies of web-based platforms
• Studies of digital humanities (culture, history, arts) using online traces
• Internet usage on mobile devices; location, human mobility, and behavior
• Organizational and group behavior mediated by web technology; interpersonal communication mediated by web and social media

Submission Types and Deadlines

We invite original work for the following categories:

Full Papers

• Submission Deadline: February 21, 2025
• Notification: March 24, 2025
• Camera Ready Deadline: April 13, 2025
• Submission Link: Full papers

Datasets, Posters, and Demos

• Calls published: December 3, 2024
• Submission Link: Datasets, Posters, and Demos

Workshops

• Calls published: November 22, 2024
• Extended Submission Deadline: January 24, 2025
• Submission Link: Workshops

Tutorials

• Calls published: November 22, 2024
• Submission Link: Tutorials

Important Dates Summary

• Full Paper Submission Deadline: February 21, 2025
• Workshop Submission Deadline (Extended): January 24, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: March 24, 2025
• Registration Deadline: April 05, 2025
• Camera Ready Deadline: April 13, 2025
• Student Travel Grant Application Deadline: March 31, 2025
• Conference Dates: June 23-26, 2025

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions should be made through the conference's submission system. Links are provided above for each category.
• ICWSM has a competitive acceptance rate of approximately 20 to 30% for full-length research papers.
• Papers are published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
• Deadlines may differ for special tracks; please consult the conference home page.

Keynote Speakers

• Adamic-Glance Plenary Talk: Kiran Garimella
• Second Keynote Speaker: Richard Rogers

Other Information

• Mentoring Program: Available for attendees.
• Awards: Nominations are open for the ICWSM Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award, with a deadline of March 15, 2025.
• Student Travel Grants: Applications deadline is March 31, 2025.
• EDI Special Session: A special session on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion will be held.

Publication

The conference proceedings are available on the AAAI website.

• Conference Proceedings: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/issue/view/658