Call for Papers
Important Dates
- Workshop paper submission:
1 January 21 January, 2025 (final and non-extendable deadline)
- Workshop paper notification: 27 January, 2025
- Workshop paper camera-ready: 7 February, 2025
- Workshop date: TBD. 28 April or 29 April, 2025
All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.
Overview
The issue of online violence against women and girls has reached critical levels globally, affecting safety, mental health, and social participation in digital spaces. From hateful content and the misuse of emerging technologies like deepfakes to the reinforcement of gender bias in AI systems, women face significant risks online.
The workshop aims to review progress in technology combating online violence against women, identify persistent barriers, and propose solutions to emerging challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Detection and prevention of gender-based online violence (e.g., harassment, stalking, cyberbullying)
- Sentiment and emotion analysis in abusive or harmful online interactions towards women
- Gender bias identification and mitigation in AI
- Human-centered approaches for online safety applications
- Approaches to preventing, understanding, identifying and mitigating online harms faced by women with multiple marginalised identities (e.g., misogynoir, LGBTQ+ women, or women from religious or cultural minorities)
- Analysis of tracking devices, surveillance tools, and hidden cameras misused against women
- Detection and mitigation of non-consensual deepfake generation and dissemination
- Interdisciplinary approaches to identifying and addressing online harm
- Legal and ethical frameworks for protecting women online
- Psychological, social, and legal impacts of online technology when used for gender-based abuse
Submission
We welcome both new and recent research, including non-archival submissions to showcase work published elsewhere, if it is especially relevant to the workshop's theme. Accepted formats include:
- Long papers: Up to 8 pages (excluding references)
- Short papers: Up to 4 pages (excluding references)
- Position, idea, or emerging problem papers: Up to 4 pages (excluding references)
- Non-archival submissions: Up to 2 pages (excluding references)
Please submit your contributions electronically via the EasyChair conference submission system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsww25
Format and Styling
Submissions should be single-blind due to limited publication time. Submissions must be in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the
ACM template and format
(also available in Overleaf).
Word users may use the Word Interim Template, and the recommended setting for LaTeX is:
\documentclass[sigconf, review]{acmart}
Submissions must be in PDF format and adhere to the guidelines provided. For further details on style and formatting,
please refer to the official guidelines provided by The Web Conference.
Fast Track
Our workshop is participating in The Web Conference 2025 Fast Track process to facilitate resubmission. Authors of papers rejected from the main conference can submit their work with light revisions to our workshop.
Submission Process for Fast Track
- Fast track submissions are open from 20 January to 26 January, 2025 (11:59 AoE).
- Authors must append an Appendix to their submission after their References that includes:
- Reviews from the main conference review process. Tweaking review comments is not allowed.
- An "Improvements" section detailing light revisions made in response to the reviews. As the time is limited, only light revisions are expected and no revisions where the work is in good shape are OK too. Heavy changes are not permitted.
- Submit your paper via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsww25.
Important Notes
- Reviews provided in the Appendix will be used solely for evaluation by the workshop organisers and will not be shared with third parties.
- Conflicts of interest will be managed in compliance with ACM guidelines. Papers with conflicts will be redirected to other workshops.
- Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Companion Proceedings unless authors opt out upon acceptance.
Contact Information
For any inquiries, please contact the organising committee at angel.pavon-perez@open.ac.uk.