ABOUT ICSC
The conference
ICSC is a long-running research conference focused on connecting computational methods and social science insight to better understand human behavior, social networks, and societal change.
ICSC consistently positions itself as a venue for collaborative research at the intersection of big data analytics and social science mechanisms. The conference evolved from early editions focused on online social behaviour into a broader international social computing forum.
Recent editions emphasize global collaboration, interdisciplinary dialogue, and the combination of computational evidence with social theory to explain interaction patterns, collective behavior, and emerging societal trends.
Core Focus
- Digital and Computational Demography
- Social networks and social behavior in online and offline contexts
- Big data analytics informed by social science theory
- Digital inclusion and the Global South
- Interdisciplinary collaboration across computational and social domains
- Advancements in methods for the broadly defined field of social computing
- Online social network analysis, mining, and modeling
- Large-scale social media analytics and intelligence
- Trust, privacy, security, and fairness in social systems
- Human-computer interaction across various domains
- Applied social computing applications in diverse areas such as health and finance
- Governance, policy, ethical, and legal challenges of emergent social technologies