Welcome to the Workshop on Societal Effects of AI in Mobile Social Media!

Social media platforms constitute an essential part of many people’s mobile device usage. Their contents have adapted to the mobile form factor, e.g., through an increase of short-form video and content recommendation instead of navigation and active selection. Social media systems thereby have a strong influence on individuals and society, for example, concerning public discourse and opinion-making. The rise of AI-generated content and LLM-backed autonomous agents even pushes such developments.

This workshop discusses social media’s recent developments and yielding positive and negative effects on our society. Participants will share their perspectives of HCI research on social media systems and the research aims they are pursuing. In this workshop, we outline opportunities in joining insights from social sciences with the potential of recent developments in Human-Computer Interaction approaches. Interface design ideas will be explored and discussed with the research community, synthesizing collective challenges, promising future directions, and strategies for research that mitigate the negative effects of AI in social media systems on our society.

Call for Participation

Our workshop will collect interdisciplinary perspectives on how we can shape our information systems to yield less negative effects. Therefore we call researchers and practicioners from diverse backgrounds to participate with their input and ideas!

To reach a more societally sustainable social media platform design, we need to regard research from various fields: Knowledge from the social sciences on communication dynamics, opinion-formation and behavioral psychology, as well as HCI research on the design of platform interfaces and the overall interaction journey.

We encourage (but are not confined to) submission regarding the following key questions:

• How have mobile social media and the integration of AI evolved in recent years? This encompasses but is not limited to, the development of recommendation algorithms, engagement strategies, and emerging content formats such as short-form videos. How does AI fuel these developments, with the proliferation of AI-generated content and artificial actors such as bots?
• Which negative and positive effects yield from the recent developments of AI in mobile social media? How does AI in mobile social media affect people individually? What does that mean for societies on a larger scale? Which cause-effect relationships do we know, and which effects do the design decisions that were made so far have on our society?
• How can we tackle negative or utilize positive effects of AI in mobile social media? Which design solutions and guidelines could mitigate negative social and societal impacts? How can we leverage AI for that?

Submission Deadline: June 27, 2025 July 30, 2025 (AoE)

Notification of Acceptance: August 6, 2025

Submission Link: via EasyChair

Submission Format: Up to four pages in the two-column ceur-ws.org/ template format (excluding references). You do not need to anonymize your submission.

Submission Types: Position papers, empirical studies, lit reviews, works-in-progress, and encore submissions of recent peer-reviewed work are welcome. We will evaluate papers by their relevance, originality, quality, and potential to foster engaging discussions during the workshop.

Publication: We will make accepted papers available on the workshop website and publish them on a ceur-ws.org proceedings.

Notes:

• At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop in person. All participants must register for the workshop and at least one conference day.
• The talks and presentations will take place physically and be on-site at MobileHCI 2025 in Sharm El-Sheikh.

Organizers

contact: florian.bemmann@ifi.lmu.de and matthias.schmidmaier@ifi.lmu.de