| Author(s) | Organization(s) | Session |
| Wacholder, Nina | Online nonsense: tools and teaching to combat fake news on the Web Presenter | |
| Wagner-Riston, Melissa | University of Maryland, United States of America | Poster Session |
| Walters, Julie | Northumbria University, United Kingdom | Poster Session |
| wang, chunying | wuhan university, China, People's Republic of | Poster Session Presenter |
| Wang, Di | Wuhan University, China, People's Republic of; Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia | Data and Information in the Public Sphere Presenter |
| Wang, Jiamin | School of Information Management,Wuhan University | Poster Session Presenter |
| Wang, Jie | Wuhan University, China, People's Republic of | Poster Session Presenter |
| Wang, Xiying | Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States; Pennsylvania State University, United States of America | Algorithms at Work Data-Driven Storytelling and Modeling Presenter |
| Wang, Yihong | Nanjing University, China | Poster Session |
| Wang, Yongyi | Wuhan University, China, People's Republic of | Poster Session |
| Wang, Yuanyuan | Yamaguchi University, Japan | Poster Session |
| Ward, Chelsea R. | James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA | Poster Session |
| Wei, Xiaofei | University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America | Poster Session Presenter |
| Weigl, David M. | Oxford e-Research Centre, Dept. Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK | Poster Session |
| Weinberger, Maor | Bar-Ilan University, Israel | Poster Session |
| Weintrop, David | University of Maryland, United States of America | Blue Sky Paper 4 Presenter |
| Werle, James | Internet2, United States of America | Poster Session Supporting Communities Through Public Libraries and Infrastructure |
| West, Jevin | Information School, University of Washington, United States of America | Poster Session |
| Wickett, Karen M. | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA | Digital Libraries, Curation and Preservation |
| Willett, Rebekah | University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America | Poster Session |
| Williams, DeAndre’ | Indiana University; ISchool Inclusion Institute | Informing Technology Design Through Offline Experiences Presenter |
| Williams, Kate | Human agency towards digital inclusion: Implementing an international study of tech help networks | |
| Willis, Matthew Andrew | Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. OX1 3JS, UK | Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Key Dilemmas for the Information Community Limits and Affordances of Automation Presenter |
| Wiriyathammabhum, Peratham | University of Maryland, United States of America | Poster Session |
| Wolf, Christine T. | IBM Research, Almaden, United States of America | Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Key Dilemmas for the Information Community Innovation and Professionalization in Technology Communities Presenter |
| Wolff, Annika | Workshopping a Data Equity Manifesto | |
| Wolfram, Dietmar | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States of America | Poster Session |
| Wong, Richmond Y. | Engaging Speculative Practices to Probe Values & Ethics in Sociotechnical Systems Presenter | |
| Workneh, Frazer | University of Maryland, United States of America | Poster Session |
| Wu, Anping | University of North Texas, United States of America | Poster Session Presenter |
| Wu, Dan | Wuhan University, China, People's Republic of | Poster Session Poster Session Understanding Online Behaviors and Experiences |
| Wu, Huanmei | IUPUI, United States of America | iSchool Partnerships and Practices, Part 1 of 3 Presenter |
| Wu, I-Chin | National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan | Understanding Online Behaviors and Experiences Presenter |
| Wu, Peng | Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, People's Republic of | Innovation and Professionalization in Technology Communities |
| Wu, Philip | Conceptualizing the Future of Information Privacy Research |