PHILOWEB2021: Web and Philosophy 2021: A Decade Retrospective WebScience 2021 (Virtual) Southhampton, UK, June 22, 2021 |
Conference website | https://web-and-philosophy.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=philoweb2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 16, 2021 |
Submission deadline | May 16, 2021 |
The workshop “Web and Philosophy” (PhiloWeb 2021) will take a ten year retrospective on how the Web, once viewed as a possible harbinger of knowledge and democracy in 2011, has become today considered a source of “fake news” and AI-based surveillance. We plan to outline the vital role of an interdisciplinary conversation on these topics, in order to achieve a nuanced theoretical and interdisciplinary perspective that go beyond both the positivism of traditional scientific approaches to the Web as well as the negative critiques of the Web in the popular press. We consider philosophy to be a core part of Web Science, and will invite interdisciplinary contributions from social science and philosophy, as well as contributions that touch on important pressing political concerns such as the possible nationalization of the Web, the increased role of the Web in education due to COVID-19, and the ecological impact of the Internet as a whole in the face of global climate change. Ten years ago these problems were not even considered, and now they are of utmost importance to not only Web Science, but the world.
Submission Guidelines
We are seeking abstracts and extended abstracts on the Web and Philosophy of 500-1000 words, as well as longer papers of up to 3000 words.
The authors shall adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM Submission template (single column). To create your PDF submission, you may use either Microsoft Word format or the ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf (ACM Conference Proceedings “Master” Template) using the “manuscript” option. A full description of the procedure can be found in this link (https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow).
Accepted abstracts will, depending on their subject, either be given individual talks or panels.
List of Topics
- AI and the Web
- Identity and the Web
- The Ecological Underpinnings of the Web
- Surveillance Capitalism
- Web Epistemology and Fake News
- The Extended Mind and the Web
- The Future of the Digital (Post)humanities
- Online Education
- COVID-19 and Digitalization
Committees
Organizing committee
- Harry Halpin: Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Nym Technologies
- Alexandre Monnin: ESC Clermont and CNRS
Publication
PHILOWEB2021 proceedings will be published in ACM Web Science proceedings by Springer, although authors may opt-out and should note this in their submission. We are planning on a special issue of a philosophy and technology journal in the future based on the workshop.
Venue
The conference will be held virtually, via videconference. The expected time to last is approximately half a day.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Harry Halpin at hhalpin@ibiblio.org