A sincere thank you to all reviewers and Senior Program Committee chairs whose dedication makes this conference possible. We're proud to recognize the very best among them with our Best Reviewer and SPC Awards🏆
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The 20th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, USA. May 27th to 29th, 2026.
And the Test of Time goes to 🥁 "Social Media Participation in an Activist Movement for Racial Equality" by @munmun10.bsky.social, Shagun Jhaver, Benjamin Sugar, and @ingmarweber.de 🥂
Congrats to the winners of this year's best paper, best dataset paper, best poster paper, and best Web Agent demo/poster 🎉 #ICWSM2026
Huge congrats to @zsavvas90.bsky.social for winning the Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award 2026 🥂
It's a wrap ✨ With insightful sessions on crisis knowledge, the fractured polis, AI assistants and collective dynamics we close a great #ICWSM2026 conference. Thanks everyone, from the organizing committee to volunteers and participants, for making this amazing community possible!
Did you miss our paper on image provenance and trust in news sources? Check it out here: www.christophtrattner.com/pubs/ICWSM20... We conducted an experiment on the C2PA standard in news images across news outlets from three different countries. It boosts source trust through image trust.
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Day 2, morning session and posters ✨ We focused on synthetic veracity, rumors and conspiracy
Morning sessions and posters from day 3: online communities, care, emotion, and vulnerability online 💡
Day 2, morning session and posters ✨ We focused on synthetic veracity, rumors and conspiracy
Snapshots from the afternoon sessions of day 1: from markets of influence to dark platform economies, moderation, and toxicity 💡 #icwsm
The first keynote @kous2v.bsky.social, who won the Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award last year, is on stage 🎤
I'm currently at #ICWSM / @icwsm.bsky.social Ping me if you're on the job market as we are/will be hiring for SOUNDS - Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (www.sounds-observatory.org).
Good Morning LA ☀️ Get ready for an inspiring first day of #icwsm 2026! Opening remarks with @luceriluc.bsky.social, Fred Morstatter, and @kristinalerman.bsky.social
Good Morning LA ☀️ Get ready for an inspiring first day of #icwsm 2026! Opening remarks with @luceriluc.bsky.social, Fred Morstatter, and @kristinalerman.bsky.social
I'm off to @icwsm.bsky.social this week, presenting our new dataset @mediacloud.bsky.social paper. This documents the datasets, and context, of our re-engineered online news archive and the directory of media sources that feeds it. Come say hi if you're here too. 👋🏽 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
More from the workshops and tutorials! Thanks everyone for a great first day, see you tomorrow 🚀
Important discussions today at #CySoc2026 around one of the most rapidly evolving questions in AI and society: Human–AI Relationships: Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities. #ICWSM2026 #AIandSociety #HumanAI #SocialComputing #GenerativeAI @icwsm.bsky.social 1/3
Some snapshots from great morning sessions: from data collection to LLM agentic simulations and centering social perception in NLP ✨ Looking forward to learn more in the afternoon 💡 #icwsm
Excited to share that our paper, “From Attention to Dialogue: Does Audience Engagement Reinforce Constructive Cross-Party Communication?”, will be presented at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026! 📍 Session 15 🗓️ May 29, 4–5 PM Please stop by if you’re at ICWSM!
Happening now! #CySoc2026 We are in Room # 1016 at ISI Highly interesting talk by @angelhwang.bsky.social on human-AI relationship, followed by paper presentations. @icwsm.bsky.social
Get ready for an inspiring day of workshops and tutorials 💡 #ICWSM workshop proceedings are now out: workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/index.php
Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops
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Excited to share this year's program for #CySoc2026 @icwsm.bsky.social in Los Angeles. This year’s workshop focuses on human–AI relationships, online toxicity, platform dynamics, and broader societal risks emerging around generative and agentic AI. 🧵1/2
Paper 🧪 w/Danish & Anindya at @icwsm.bsky.social #CySoc: "F*** You Biden": Cross-Partisan Electoral Toxicity on X During last US election, Democratic posts were less toxic than Republican ones but received many more toxic cross-partisan replies from Republicans. Preprint: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
"F*** You Biden": Cross-Partisan Electoral Toxicity on X
Political discourse on social media has grown increasingly toxic, with electoral periods amplifying partisan hostility and cross-group attacks. Yet it remains unclear whether toxicity in online politi...
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How to obtain online activity data for research in the Post-API age? And what if there's already a unique collection of online activity data that you could obtain access to for your research? 👀 Come to our tutorial (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social ) at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 in LA! (1/7)
🎤 Introducing the chairs of #ICWSM2027! We're thrilled to welcome @bjoernross.bsky.social, Walid Magdy, and Clare Llewellyn-MacRae in the organization of next year's conference. Stay tuned for updates 🚀
⏳ Reminder: The #ICWSM May deadline is coming up fast! 📅 May 15th, 23:59 AoE 📄 Full submission details: icwsm.org/2026/submit.... Accepted papers will be presented at ICWSM 2027 in Edinburgh, same submission guidelines as 2026 apply.
I'm super thrilled to be bringing #ICWSM to Scotland with my colleagues Walid Magdy and @clarellewellyn.bsky.social ! Submit your papers on online social dynamics & human behaviour by the 15 May or 15 September 2026 deadline to present in Edinburgh in 2027! #computationalsocialscience
🚨 Big news! #ICWSM '27 is heading to Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰 More details on dates and venue coming soon ✨ ❗How submissions work: • May 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Sept '26 • Sept 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Jan '27 • Jan 15, 2027: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → May '27 (→ ICWSM '28)