The Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society is organized by the Network Institute, the hub for interdisciplinary research on the Digital Society at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Submission Guidelines

Authors will be asked to submit an abstract describing work that they will present in poster/lightning talk format. Upon acceptance, authors will prepare a poster to be presented (in person) at IWDS'26. 

• Posters can describe ongoing research and works-in-progress, or summarize previous research findings.

Organizing Committee

• Dorothé Smit Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Lea Krause Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Renate Baumgartner Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Kiara Scheunpflug Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Julia Janssen Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Mike Ligthart Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Ivano Malavolta Direct of the Network Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Invited Speakers

• Dr. Laura Hollink specializes in responsible AI for the culture and media sectors and leads the Human-Centered Data Analytics group at the Center of Mathemathics and Computer Science in The Netherlands. She will give a keynote entitled "Bias in Linked Open Data". 

Venue

The in-person conference will be held at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dorothé Smit at g.d.smit@vu.nl