A sincere thank you to all reviewers and Senior Program Committee chairs whose dedication makes this conference possible. We're proud to recognize the very best among them with our Best Reviewer and SPC Awards🏆

And the Test of Time Award goes to 🥁 "Social Media Participation in an Activist Movement for Racial Equality" by @munmun10, @shagunjhaver, Benjamin Sugar, and @ingmarweber 🍾

Congrats to the winners of this year's best paper, best dataset paper, best poster paper, and best Web Agent demo/poster 🎉 #ICWSM2026

Huge congrats to @zsavvas90 for winning the Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award 2026 🥂

It's a wrap ✨ With insightful sessions on crisis knowledge, the fractured polis, AI assistants and collective dynamics we close a great #ICWSM2026. Thanks everyone, from the organizing committee to volunteers and participants, for making this amazing community possible!

I am currently at @icwsm. We (@sarmadchandioo @khalaimukhlooq , Ethan) will be presenting our paper "Flattening Fantasies: Analysing Stereotypes in Pornographic Discourse" in the 4:00-5:00 session . Come say Hi! (It just won the best paper award)

Sense of community is the "glue" that holds online communities together! But what factors affect sense of community online? Come to my talk @icwsm tomorrow morning at 8:30 to learn more! 🧵

Wrapping up a second day of #icwsm 2026 full of energy and new ideas💡

Day 2, morning session and posters ✨ We focused on synthetic veracity, rumors and conspiracy

Excited to finally have this paper (w/ @diojenez and @sinanaral) in print at @icwsm after being in the works for *nine* years! We analyze the randomized introduction of centralized reputation into an online market embedded *inside* of a social network! Paper link below:

Important discussions today at #CySoc2026 around one of the most rapidly evolving questions in AI and society: Human–AI Relationships: Risks, Rewards, and Responsibilities. Our panel session explored how AI companions and conversational agents are beginning to shape emotional support, trust, vulnerability, well-being, and online interactions, along with the societal and ethical challenges that emerge with them. Very much thanks to our panelists and attendees for the productive and fruitful and interdisciplinary discussions. #ICWSM2026 #AIandSociety #HumanAI #SocialComputing #GenerativeAI @angelhwang6 @zhangyt0704 @gvrkiran @icwsm

As @icwsm opens, delighted to share my accepted, co-authored paper with Liancheng Gong & Samuel Wolken, "The Limits of De-politicizing—and Also of Annotation: A Case Study in Russian Media Outlets’ Social Media Posts, 2016–2024." URL in the replies along with key results.

Snapshots from the afternoon sessions of day 1: from markets of influence to dark platform economies, moderation, and toxicity 💡 #icwsm

The first keynote @kous2v, who won the Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award last year, is on stage 🎤

“The Curated Gateway”, what a great first session 🎤 #icwsm

Good Morning LA ☀️ Ready for an inspiring first day of #icwsm 2026! Opening remarks with @LucaLuceri, @fredmorstatter, and @KristinaLerman

More from the workshops and tutorials! Thanks everyone for a great first day, see you tomorrow 🚀

Some snapshots from great morning sessions: from data collection to LLM agentic simulations and centering social perception in NLP ✨ Looking forward to learn more in the afternoon 💡 #icwsm

RT @UgurKursuncu: Happening now! #CySoc2026 We are in Room # 1016 @USC_ISI Highly interesting talk by @angelhwang6 on human-AI relations…

#iSchoolUI Professor Dong Wang and PhD student Ruichen Yao will present their research at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (@ICWSM) 2026, which will take place May 27-29 in Los Angeles. Read more about their papers▶️ bit.ly/4a580cL