TY - JOUR AU - Editor, Managing AU - An, Jisun AU - Chunara, Rumi AU - Crandall, David J. AU - Frajberg, Darian AU - French, Megan AU - Jansen, Bernard J. AU - Kulshrestha, Juhi AU - Mejova, Yelena AU - Romero, Daniel M. AU - Salminen, Joni AU - Sharma, Amit AU - Sheth, Amit AU - Tan, Chenhao AU - Taylor, Samuel Hardman AU - Wijeratne, Sanjaya PY - 2018/12/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2018 International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 39 IS - 4 SE - Workshop Reports DO - 10.1609/aimag.v39i4.2835 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2835 SP - 36-44 AB - <p>The Workshop Program of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 12th International Conference on Web and Social Media (AAAI-18) was held at Stanford University, Stanford, California USA, on Monday, June 25, 2018. There were fourteen workshops in the program: Algorithmic Personalization and News: Risks and Opportunities; Beyond Online Data: Tackling Challenging Social Science Questions; Bridging the Gaps: Social Media, Use and Well-Being; Chatbot; Data-Driven Personas and Human-Driven Analytics: Automating Customer Insights in the Era of Social Media;&nbsp; Designed Data for Bridging the Lab and the Field: Tools, Methods, and Challenges in Social Media Experiments; Emoji Understanding and Applications in Social Media; Event Analytics Using Social Media Data; Exploring Ethical Trade-Offs in Social Media Research; Making Sense of Online Data for Population Research; News and Public Opinion; Social Media and Health: A Focus on Methods for Linking Online and Offline Data; Social Web for Environmental and Ecological Monitoring and The ICWSM Science Slam. Workshops were held on the first day of the conference. Workshop participants met and discussed issues with a selected focus — providing an informal setting for active exchange among researchers, developers, and users on topics of current interest. Organizers from nine of the&nbsp; workshops submitted reports, which are reproduced in this report. Brief summaries of the other five workshops have been reproduced from their website descriptions.</p> ER -