[Air-L] Call for papers | Seminar on Information Disorders

[Ambika Tandon]

Hello,

The Centre for Internet and Society, India is announcing the launch of
a seminar series to showcase research around digital rights and
technology policy, with a focus on the Global South. The CIS seminar
series will be a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress,
exchange ideas, identify avenues for collaboration, and curate
research.

The theme for the first seminar in the series is Information
Disorders. This includes research that proposes empirical, replicable
methods of understanding the types, forms or nature of information
disorder or research that attempts to understand regulatory
approaches, the layers of production and the roles played by different
agents in the spread of ‘fake news’.

Accordingly, we invite submissions examining the relationship between
digital technology and information disorder across a spectrum of
fields and disciplines. Areas of interest include but are not limited
to:

1. Information disorders during COVID-19
2. Effects of coordinated campaigns on marginalised communities
3. Journalism, the State, and the trust in media
4. Platform responsibility in information disorder
5. Information disorder in international law/constitutional/human rights law
6. Information disorder as a geopolitical tool
7. Sociopolitical and cultural factors in user engagement

Key dates:

Abstract Submission Deadline: August 25th
Results of Abstract review: September 8th
Full submissions (of draft papers): September 30th
Seminar date: October 7th

Please send in your abstracts to workshops at cis-india.org. Please
contact aman at cis-india.org in case of any queries.

Best,

Ambika Tandon
Senior researcher
CIS