ICWSM encourages submissions across diverse research areas. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Social network analysis and community detection
Information diffusion and viral phenomena in the web or online social spaces
Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance identification
Misinformation, fact-checking, and credibility of online content
Web mining, information extraction, and information retrieval on online platforms
Privacy and security on the web
Digital humanities and cultural analytics using online traces
Political communication, civic engagement, and predictability of real-world phenomena using or related to web or digital-trace data
Health and well-being in digital spaces
Text categorization, topic recognition, and demographic identification using online behavior or digital-trace data
Trend identification, tracking, and time series forecasting for web data
Analysis of the relationship between social media and mainstream media
Qualitative and quantitative studies of online platforms
Linguistic analyses of human behavior on the web
Psychological, personality-based, and ethnographic studies of web-based platforms
Engagement, motivations, incentives, and gamification on the web
Social innovation and effecting change through the web
New web applications, interfaces, and interaction techniques
Internet usage on mobile devices, location, and human mobility
Organizational and group behavior mediated by web technology
Interpersonal communication mediated by web and social media