The journal welcomes high-quality submissions covering, but not limited to, the following areas: Informatics Visualization Big data visualization and visual analytics Interactive and immersive data visualization techniques Visualization of graphs, networks, and social relationships Multimedia and digital image visualization Visualization algorithms and techniques Human-computer interaction (HCI) in visualization Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications for data visualization Social Computing Social network analysis and modeling Collaborative and social computing systems Social media analytics and mining Social influence and digital interaction modeling Participatory computing and crowdsourcing Security, privacy, and ethical issues in social computing Machine learning and artificial intelligence for social applications Interdisciplinary and Applied Research Applications of visualization and social computing in education, business, healthcare, government, and social sciences Experimental methodologies, case studies, and quantitative/qualitative approaches in informatics and social computing Development of tools, platforms, and systems for visualization and social computing