[Air-L] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Cyber-Social Health: Promoting Good and Countering Harm on Social Media

[Ugur Kursuncu]

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting your papers on the topic of "Cyber-Social
Health: Promoting Good and Countering Harm on Social Media" for the Special
Issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Link for the CfP here:
https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/ic/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-cyber-social-health-promoting-good-and-countering-harm-on-social-media

Please kindly share with your colleagues, students, and collaborators.

This special issue welcomes theoretical, analytical, and empirical
contributions using any kind of research method, including experiments,
primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys,
and so on. Submissions are encouraged to examine the nature of both harmful
and social good intentional behaviors on social media towards
understanding, detecting, and monitoring good communication while
countering harmful communication, by employing computational social media
analytics techniques. The target audience for this special issue will
consist of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from various
disciplines, including (but not limited to) behavioral science, computer
and information sciences, psychology, sociology, political science,
cognitive science, cultural study, information systems, terrorism and
counter-terrorism, operations research, and communication.

Through this special issue, we aim to bring together researchers and
practitioners from different disciplines, to share, exchange, learn, and
develop preliminary results, new concepts, ideas, principles, and
methodologies on social, cultural, emotional, communicative, and linguistic
aspects of harmful communications and their content on social media.

*Topics* include, but are not limited to:

   -     Misinformation, disinformation, fake news (e.g., during elections,
   epidemics, and disasters, as well as regarding health topics like
   vaccines), and spreading deep fakes
   -     Online extremism
   -     Harassment and cyberbullying
   -     Hate speech
   -     Gender-based violence
   -     Human trafficking
   -     Illicit drug trafficking
   -     Mental health implications of social media
   -     Validity of social media in smart health and well-being
   -     Ethical and privacy-preserving social media analytics
   -     Emotional and psychological support
   -     Trust relationship and community dynamics
   -     Relationship of social web and mainstream news media
   -     Cultural implications of social web usage
   -     Social good campaigns and movements
   -     Influencer identification and community detection for movements

*Important Dates*
*    Paper submissions due: April 15, 2020*
    First-round reviews due: July 8, 2020
    Revisions due: August 12, 2020
    Final decision notification: September 16, 2020
    Camera-ready submissions due: September 30, 2020
    Publication: November/December 2020

*Guest Editors*
Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas, USA
Ugur Kursuncu, AI Institute, University of South Carolina, USA
Hemant Purohit, George Mason University, USA
Amit Sheth, AI Institute, University of South Carolina, USA