[Air-L] Call for Abstracts: Socinfo’19 Workshop on Bias, Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda in Online News and Social Media

[Banu Akdenizli]

SocInfo'19 Organisation

Call for Abstracts

Workshop on Bias, Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda in Online
News and Social Media



Workshop website:
https://propaganda.qcri.org/bias-misinformation-workshop-socinfo19/

Tentative Workshop Date: November 18, 2019

Abstracts submission deadline: September 5, 2019 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard
Time)

Co-located with Social Informatics 2019, November 18-21, Doha, Qatar.



In recent years, we have witnessed the rise of social media, which have
enabled people to virtually share information with a large number of users
with little-to-no regulation or quality control. On the one hand, this has
enabled anyone with a computer and internet access to rapidly create and
disseminate content. On the other hand, it has also opened the door for
malicious users, including automated bots, to rapidly spread
disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda, which can now reach
audiences at an unprecedented scale. This has resulted in the proliferation
of false information that is typically created either (a) to attract
network traffic in order to secure financial gain through advertising
revenue (e.g. clickbait), or (b) to affect individual people's beliefs -
something that can ultimately lead to influencing major events such as
political elections or views on public health. There are strong indications
that false information was weaponized at an unprecedented scale during the
2016 U.S. and the 2018 Brazilian presidential campaigns, among many others.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers from both academia and
industry to discuss bias, disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda in
online news and in social media.



Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

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   Bias
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   Bots
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   Check-worthiness
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   Claim extraction
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   Claim source detection
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   Clickbait
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   Deep fakes
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   Disinformation
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   Echo chambers
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   Fact-checking
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   Fake reviews
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   Harassment/bullying
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   Hate speech
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   Hyper-partisanship
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   Misinformation
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   Offensive language
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   Polarization
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   Propaganda identification/analysis
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   Seminar users
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   Source reliability
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   Stance detection
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   Supporting evidence retrieval
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   Trolls
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   Trust
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   Truth


Submission Format

We kindly ask you to submit abstracts addressing one of the topics above
from the perspective of use cases, tools, resources, and preliminary
experimental results.

Abstracts should be in Socinfo format (see
https://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines),
1-2 pages  long. Abstracts will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and
the authors of selected abstracts will be assigned a time slot for a short
presentation (15 minutes each) to present their ideas. Selected abstracts
will be made available on this website.

Send your submission to socinfo-bias-workshop at googlegroups.com.

 Workshop Organisers:

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   Giovanni da San Martino (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin
   Khalifa University)
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   Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa
   University)
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   Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Università di Bologna)
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   Jisun An (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa
   University)
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   Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa
   University)
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   Banu Akdenizli (Northwestern University, Qatar)
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   Marc O. Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
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   Grant Franklin Totten (Aljazeera)


-- 
Banu Akdenizli, PhD
Associate Professor
Communications
Northwestern University-Qatar