About the ACM Web Science Conference

Web Science is the study of the most complex artifact entangling technology, humans, and information ever created. Today the World Wide Web has evolved into billions of technical and human components operating globally, with each piece subtly influencing the others. To gain a deep understanding of the complex and multiple impacts the Web has on the daily life of individuals, organizations, and society as a whole, a strong interdisciplinarity is essential. Major scientific disciplines involved include (but are in no way limited to) Computer science, information science, sociology, psychology, and economy. Multiple perspectives across these disciplines are required to address pressing issues of our time and to gain insights on how the Web changes society just as much as society changes the Web.

Establishing a prime venue for Web Science as a dedicated research focus, the Web Science Conference has run every year since 2009 and has been an ACM conference since 2011. The series has produced more than 800 publications that have been download over 400,000 times. The Web Science Conference series is sponsored by the Web Science Trust (WST), the ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web (SIGWEB), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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