Web Studies 2: Second International Congress on Web Studies Université Paris 8, Archives Nationales, Tour Montparnasse Paris, France, October 3-5, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.digitaluses-congress.univ-paris8.fr/Web-studies-2_about |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webstudies2 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2018 |
Notification to authors | May 18, 2018 |
Early registration | June 1, 2018 |
Camera-ready papers | June 30, 2018 |
The international conference on Web Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific gathering that investigates the World Wide Web as an object of inquiry. It conceives the Web as an expansive entity: an extended space that reaches every domain of life. Seen from different perspectives and disciplines, the components of the Web can be seized as data structures, algorithmic processes, visual surface, cultural uses, or artistic expressions.
WS.2 calls for communications and artworks around the theme “Seeing through the web: tools, practices, and impacts”. We aim at observing the Web beyond the visible surface of the computer screen. The general goal is to identify and to discuss critically the tools that exist to produce and analyze the information available online and the practices that have emerged since the invention of the Web, their transformations and effects on the physical and unplugged world.
We believe this is also an opportunity to evaluate the impacts of the Web in other fields and areas: how the Web have shaped or affected the practices in social sciences, art, humanities, design, computing, and sciences. As we have seen, new technologies and standards have matured, while others remain to be fully implemented in Web browsers and devices: which tools do we have to explore new Web dimensions and directions? How these tools allow us to expand or rather restrain our understanding of the Web? How these tools support community, open, shared, and sustainable practices?
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full and short papers describing long, mid, short-term research; presenting, documenting and discussing methodologies, tools, experiences and practices concerned with Web-related projects.
- Posters and Demos showing innovative and on-going approaches to new tools but also of scenarios of use.
- Online Exhibition artworks and productions that put in practice the technical possibilities of the Web from an aesthetic perspective. Productions are expected to make extensive use of JavaScript libraries, APIs, and 3D Computer Graphics Imagery.
List of Topics
- Software Applications for the Web
- Visual and Graphical Web
- APIs and Services
- Political Web
- Green Web
- Deep Web
- Mobile Web
- Web Design
- Programming Languages
- Data Science
- Protocols and Platforms
- Critical and radical Web
- Web, biology and natural sciences
Committees
Program Committee
- Andrés Burbano (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
- Dana Diminescu (Télécom ParisTech, France)
- Johanna Drucker (UCLA, USA)
- Federica Frabetti (University of Roehampton, London, UK)
- Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
- Salvatore Iaconesi (Art is Open Source, Italy)
- Jacques Ibanez-Bueno (Université Savoie Mont Blanc, France)
- Manuel Lima (Google, USA)
- Nohemí Lugo (Tecnológico de Monterrey Querétaro, Mexico)
- Cristina Marras (CNR-ILIESI, Italy)
- María Elena Meneses (Tecnológico de Monterrey CCM, Mexico)
- Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
- Santiago Ortiz (Moebio Labs, USA)
- Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art/University of Southampton, UK)
- Jean-Christophe Plantin (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
- Piero Polidoro (LUMSA, Italy)
- Isaac Rudomin (Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain)
- Stéfan Sinclair (McGill University, Canada)
- Mirko Tobias Schäfer (Utrecht University & Utrecht Data School, Netherlands)
- Alise Tifentale (Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
- Matteo Treleani (Université de Lille 3, France)
- José Luis Vera (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico)
Organizing committee
- Everardo Reyes (Université Paris 8, France)
- Sarah Labelle (Université Paris 13, France)
Publication
Web Studies 2 proceedings will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library and published by either ACM and/or Wiley-ISTE.
Venue
The conference will be mainly held at the Université Paris 8, with some activities taking place at the Archives Nationales and the Tour Montparnasse.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr. Everardo Reyes, ereyes.net@gmail.com
Sponsors
Web Studies 2 is part of the first international Digital Tools & Uses Congress, a multidisciplinary conference devoted to study the uses and development of digital tools. It aims at assembling five interrelated symposia: 1) Web Studies, 2) Challenges of IoT, 3) Recommender systems, 4) Archives and social networks, and 5) Digital Frontiers. The intention of this consortium is to approach a common object of study from different perspectives in order to enrich the discussion and collaboration between participants.
Partners include: Université Paris 8, Université Paris Lumières, Université Cergy Pontoise, Université Paris Sud, CNAM, University of Turin, UNESCO Chair ITEN, Eastgate Systems.