CFP

Web Studies 4: 4th International Conference on Web Studies

Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México

Mexico City, Mexico, October 30-31, 2023

Conference website	https://ereyes.github.io/ws4/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=webstudies4
Submission deadline	April 28, 2023

Topics: world wide web digital culture digital media creative computing

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.

Submission Guidelines

WS.4 calls for contrubutions that interrogate the manners in which the web relates to screens, physical supports, and ambient/context media.Submission Types

Long Papers: typically articles from 4 to 6 pages, including references.
Short Papers: typically articles from 2 to 3 pages, including references.
Posters: one-page paper.
Demos: one-page paper.
Online Exhibition: one-page paper.

List of Topics

The 4th edition of Web Studies (WS.4) identifies topics in two categories:

Tools and materials

Algorithms for the Web
APIs and Web Services
Automatic Web Generation
Green Web
Machine/Deep Learning
Mobile Web
Software Applications for the Web
Web-based Programming Paradigms
Web-oriented Programming Languages
Web as Platform
Web Protocols

Uses and practices

Computational Creativity
Aesthetics of Web
Deep Web
Critical and Radical Web
Cultural Analytics
Data Science on the Web
Data Visualization for the Web
Online Digital Humanities
Political Web
Social Web
Semiotics of Web and Interfaces
Web Design
Visual and Graphical Web
Web, biology and natural sciences
Legal and Ethical issues in Web Studies

Committees

General Chairs

Everardo Reyes (Université Paris 8, FR)
Mark Bernstein (Eastgate Systems, USA)
Giancarlo Ruffo (Università del Piemonte Orientale, IT)
Imad Saleh (Université Paris 8, FR)

Organizing committee

Carlos Isaac González (ITESM/UNAM, MX)
Wendy Aguilar (IIMAS, UNAM, MX)
Marina Kriscautzky (DGTIC, UNAM, MX)
Glenn Miller (ITESM, MX)
Roberto Cabezas (ITESM, MX)

Scientific committee

Kristian Bankov (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)
David Bihanic (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Mayra Barrera (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Inma Berlanga (Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain)
Julia Bonaccorsi (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France)
Andrés Burbano (UOC Open University of Catalonia, Spain)
Roberto Cabezas (Centro Mexico)
Natalia Calderón (Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile)
George Caridakis (University of Aegean, Greece)
Dana Diminescu (Télécom ParisTech, France)
Johanna Drucker (University of California Los Angeles, USA)
Federica Frabetti (University of Roehampton London, UK)
Carlos Isaac González (ITESM/UNAM, Mexico)
Rolando González (Runente, Mexico)
Jacques Ibanez-Bueno (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, France)
Inés Laitano (Université Paris 8, France)
Sarah Labelle (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III, France)
Horacio Larreguy (ITAM, Mexico)
Nohemí Lugo (Tecnológico de Monterrey - Querétaro, Mexico)
Cristina Marras (CNR-ILIESI, Italy)
Stuart Moulthrop (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA)
Louis-Claude Paquin (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Santiago Ortiz (Moebio Labs, USA)
Jussi Parikka (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Piero Polidoro (LUMSA University, Italy)
Vincent Puig (IRI Centre Pompidou, France)
Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Isaac Rudomin (UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico)
Laura Shackelford (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Mirko Tobias Schäfer (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Marta Severo (Université Paris Nanterre, France)
Ysabel Tamayo (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)
Alise Tifentale (City University of New York, USA)
Matteo Treleani (Université Côte d’Azur, France)
José Luis Vera (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Mexico)

Invited Speakers

Gene Kogan (NYU, USA) - artist and programmer exploring autonomous systems, collective intelligence, generative art, and computer science.
Ricardo Celis (Plazi, USA) - computer science faculty manager at Plazi. Online education specialist, with focus on teaching software engineering and computer science.

Venue

WS.4 will take place at Technology Development Center (CEDETEC) at Tecnológico de Monterrey - Campus Ciudad de México, Mexico City.

Other activities will also take place at UNAM IIMAS (Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas).

Specific gatherings and events will be held at WS.4 Hub, a dedicated electronic space to gather on site and from different locations.

Contact

Please write any questions to info@webstudies.app