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Topics and thematic clusters

WS.5 welcomes contributions that examine generative AI and the Web across technical, social, cultural, artistic, legal, infrastructural, and critical perspectives. The following clusters are indicative rather than exhaustive.

 

Infrastructure

The Web as AI infrastructure

Generative AI for the Web; retrieval-augmented generation; web-scale corpora; crawling, filtering, documentation, and licensing; APIs, protocols, standards, datasets, platform dependencies; agentic browsing, web automation, delegated action, and reliability.
 

Uses & Interfaces

Interfaces, interaction, and literacy

Conversational search; answer engines; AI-mediated browsing; prompting versus searching; web literacies; human-AI collaboration in writing, publishing, education, journalism, and research; personalization; accessibility; inclusive design; and user agency.
 

Governance & Society

Trust, power, rights, and governance

Provenance, citation, attribution, traceability, and source visibility; AI-generated misinformation, spam, fraud, deception, and moderation; web governance; regulation; intellectual property; data rights; platform power; labor; monetization; traffic redistribution; sustainability; compute costs; and green Web infrastructures.
 

Art, Design & Practice

Creative, artistic, and practice-based Web Studies

Net art; browser-based art; interactive installations; web performance; generative art; creative coding; procedural storytelling; prompt-based practice; critical making; speculative design; design fiction; curatorial and archival practice; prototypes; tools; visualizations; and practice-based inquiry.

Note: These clusters are intended to help authors position their contribution. Submissions may combine several clusters, methods, and disciplinary perspectives.

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