[Air-L] Call for Papers: AI & Extreme Speech Workshop LMU Munich 26-27 July 2021

Thu Apr 29 08:26:31 PDT 2021

Dear all

Apologies for cross-posting.

***
*Call for papers**International Counterathon Workshop**AI, Extreme Speech
and Disinformation: Global Challenges and the Way Ahead*

26-27 July 2021

Venue: Centre for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich

*Abstract deadline: 20 May 2021*

*AI4Dignity,* the European Research Council (ERC) funded project, is hosting
a two-day *Counterathon *workshop at LMU Munich, to develop global
perspectives around AI and online content moderation. The workshop will
create a collaborative coding space where fact checkers from selected
countries around the world will enter into a facilitated dialogue with AI
developers and academic experts to improve machine learning models to flag
and label online extreme speech. The event will also feature thematic
panels and public plenaries. Confirmed speakers include Hossein Deerakshan
(LSE), Joan Donovan (Harvard), Bharat Ganesh (Groningen), Kiran Garimella
(MIT), Duncan Omanga (SSRC), Jonathan Corpus Ong (UMass), Pablo Ortellado
(Uni of São Paolo), and Cristina Tardeguilla (Agência Lupa).

We are inviting submission of abstracts in these thematic areas:

   - Policy frameworks for AI and online content moderation in the EU/North
   America/the ‘global Souths’
   - Critical studies of the promise and limits of AI systems for online
   extreme speech moderation
   - Ethnographic approaches to AI assisted efforts against hate and
   disinformation

Please send your abstracts (300 words) to ai4dignity at ethnologie.lmu.de before
20 May 2021. Selected participants will be notified by 25 May 2021.
Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, theoretical
framework, methodology, and a brief note on how your research is connected
to one or more of the three thematic areas. Please also include 3-5
keywords that describe your work, and a short bio (100 words, stating
affiliation).

The workshop is planned as a hybrid event but will go fully online based on
the pandemic situation. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for
the physical event.

Selected presentations will be invited to contribute to an edited
collection.

If you have any questions, please contact

Sahana Udupa (Principal Investigator) at ai4dignity at ethnologie.lmu.de