Editing Community research venues (section)

==Venues and sources==

Here are some places that publish research about online communities. Trolling through their annual programs or journal issues is one way to keep up to date on research findings. Generally there will be a link to a list of accepted papers, or a set of links to various categories of accepted papers, or a link to a program. The lists of sample titles are in no way exhaustive but perhaps give a sense of the kinds of work that might be found in a given publication.

=== Online communities ===
* [https://www.icwsm.org ICWSM] -- International conference on web and social media '''Sample titles''':
** Why do people participate in small online communities?
** Measuring the Importance of User-Generated Content to Search Engines 
* [https://sigchi.org/conferences/ CHI] -- ACM Computer-Human Interaction. '''Sample titles''': 
** Coordination and Collaboration: How do Volunteer Moderators Work as Team in Live Streaming Communities?
** Community Resilience: Quantifying the Disruptive Effects of Sudden Spikes in Activity within Online Communities
** ARMY's Magic Shop: Understanding the Collaborative Construction of Playful Places in Online Communities
** Follow the Leader: Technical and Inspirational Leadership in Open Source Software
* [https://cscw.acm.org/ CSCW] -- ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. '''Sample titles:''' 
** More than a Modern Day Green Book: Exploring the Online Community of Black Twitter
** Many Destinations, Many Pathways: A Quantitative Analysis of Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Scratch
** The Signals that Potential Contributors Look for When Choosing Open-source Projects
* [https://www.icahdq.org/ ICA] -- International Communication Association
** ICA is one of the two big communication conferences, and is probably the best conference for computational communication work. ICA is organized in divisions, which act semi-autonomously, and you submit papers to a division rather than to the conference. The divisions most aligned with CDSC research are probably Computational Methods, Information Systems, Communication and Technology (CAT), and Organizational Communication.
* [https://www.natcom.org/ NCA] -- National Communication Association
** NCA is the other big communication conference. It's in the US, in November. Like ICA, it's composed of divisions, with their own calls for papers. CDSC members have not been as active at NCA, but some divisions that overlap are Communication and the Future, Group Communication, Human Communication and Technology, and Organizational Communication.
* [https://iscss.org/ IC2S2] -- International Conference of Computational Social Science
** IC2S2 is a multidisciplinary computational social science conference. They only require 2 page abstracts, which is nice. It's been growing quickly but has historically been a smallish conference.
* [https://ci.acm.org/ CI] -- ACM Collective Intelligence
** CI is a multidisciplinary conference focused on group decision making, game theory, simulations, etc.
* [https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/About Wikimania]
**  Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement’s annual conference celebrating the free knowledge projects made possible by the volunteer community.
* [https://2025.fossy.us/ FOSSY] -- Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference
** FOSSY is focused on the creation and impact of free and open source software, uplifting contributors of all experience. They have community-led tracks over four days, typically during the summer. (CDSC runs the Science of Community track!)
* [https://aoir.org/ AOIR] -- Association of Internet Researchers. '''Sample titles:'''
** Digital Traces, Social Residues: Usage as self-representation on lifestyle apps
** Archiving the Insurrection: The case of r/Datahoarder
* [https://dl.acm.org/journal/tsc Transactions on Social Computing] '''Sample titles:'''
** Helping Each Other Quit Online: Understanding User Engagement and Real-life Outcomes of the r/StopSmoking Digital Smoking Cessation Community
** An Investigation of the Portrayal of Social Media Challenges on YouTube and Twitter
* [https://dl.acm.org/journal/tochi Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction]. '''Sample titles:'''
** A Trade-off-centered Framework of Content Moderation
** Quarantined! Examining the Effects of a Community-Wide Moderation Intervention on Reddit
* [https://group.acm.org/conferences/group22/ GROUP] -- ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. '''Sample titles:'''
** Communication Channels and their Challenges: an Analysis of Software Development Teams during the COVID-19 Pandemic
** Collaborative behavior and winning challenges in Competitive Software Crowdsourcing
* [https://hicss.hawaii.edu HICCS] -- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. '''Sample titles:'''
** Towards Automated Moderation: Enabling Toxic Language Detection with Transfer Learning and Attention-Based Models
** Achieving Success in Community Crowdsourcing: Lessons from the Field
** Are Deep Learning-Generated Social Media Profiles Indistinguishable from Real Profiles?

=== Software engineering focused, but often include social/community aspects ===
* [https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2024 ICSE - especially 'ICSE-SEIS'] -- ICSE is International Conference on Software Engineering and SEIS is 'Software Engineering in Society'. '''Sample titles:''' 
** Gender Representation Among Contributors to Open-Source Infrastructure - An Analysis of 20 Package Manager Ecosystems
** Hackathons as Inclusive Spaces for Prototyping Software in Open Social Innovation with NGOs
** Rules of Engagement: Why and How Companies Participate in OSS
* [https://opensym.org/ OpenSym] -- International Symposium on Open Collaboration. '''Sample titles:'''
** How to characterize the health of an Open Source Software project? A snowball literature review of an emerging practice
** Efficient Prior Publication Identification for Open Source Code
** Challenges of Using Hugging Face Deep Learning Framework in an Enterprise Environment
* [https://conf.researchr.org/home/msr-2023 MSR] -- Mining Software Repositories (i.e. learning about software and software communities using the repository as evidence.). '''Sample titles:'''
** An exploratory study of bug introducing changes: what happens when bugs are introduced in open source software?
** Understanding issues related to personal data and data protection in open source projects on GitHub
* [https://saner2023.must.edu.mo/ SANER] IEEE Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering. '''Sample titles:'''
** Identifying Emergent Leadership in Open Source Software Projects Based on Communication Styles
** HFCommunity: A Tool to Analyze the Hugging Face Hub Community
* [https://conf.researchr.org/home/icsme-2023 ICSME] -- This is the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution. '''Sample titles:''' 
** What Makes a Good Code Example? A Study of Programming Q&A in StackOverflow
** On the Use of GitHub Actions in Software Development Repositories
* [https://www.esec-fse.org/ ESEC-FSE] -- This is the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the foundations of Software Engineering. '''Sample titles:''' 
** A Case Study of Implicit Mentoring, Its Prevalence, and Impact in Apache
** Corporate Dominance in Open Source Ecosystems: A Case Study of OpenStack
** Tracking Patches for Open Source Software Vulnerabilities
* [https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research The Linux Foundation]. '''Sample titles:'''
** The business value of the OSPO
** Measuring the economic value of open source
** Mentorship in open source