Full-length research papers
Original work published in the proceedings by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), with a competitive acceptance rate of approximately 20 to 30%.
HCI/CORE A
ICWSM 2026
The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
ICWSM 2026 is the twentieth edition of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, a premier venue for computational social science and social computing. It brings together multidisciplinary researchers to study the interplay between web technologies and society through digital traces of human behavior, emphasizing societal relevance and the integration of social science with computational methods.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
January 16, 2026
AoE
Conference timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
January 16, 2026 · AoE
Paper fit
Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Research areas in scope
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Research Topics
Social network analysis and community detectionInformation diffusion and viral phenomena in the web or online social spacesSentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance identificationMisinformation, fact-checking, and credibility of online contentWeb mining, information extraction, and information retrieval on online platformsPrivacy and security on the webDigital humanities and cultural analytics using online tracesPolitical communication, civic engagement, and predictability of real-world phenomena using or related to web or digital-trace dataHealth and well-being in digital spacesText categorization, topic recognition, and demographic identification using online behavior or digital-trace dataTrend identification, tracking, and time series forecasting for web dataAnalysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream mediaQualitative and quantitative studies of online platformsLinguistic analyses of human behavior on the webPsychological, personality-based, and ethnographic studies of web-based platformsEngagement, motivations, incentives, and gamification on the webSocial innovation and effecting change through the webNew web applications, interfaces, and interaction techniquesInternet usage on mobile devices, location, and human mobilityOrganizational and group behavior mediated by web technologyInterpersonal communication mediated by web and social media
Policies worth checking twice
- Papers focusing solely on the advancement of algorithmic components, or using Web data only as an artifact (e.g., for method evaluation) are out of scope.
- Ideal submissions must speak to research questions of societal relevance.
- Papers using LLMs as tools to process web and social media (W&SM) data must evaluate their impact on W&SM data; otherwise, they will be desk rejected.
- Proposing an LLM tool for a task related to W&SM analysis and testing it on non-W&SM data is out of scope.
- Proposing an LLM tool for a task not related to W&SM analysis is out of scope.
- Using LLMs to process non-W&SM data to draw conclusions is out of scope.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026