[Air-L] [CfP] Second Call for Papers and Talk Proposals | TTO Conference 2021 + JDIQ Special Issue

[Elena Kochkina]

Dear colleagues,

We invite you to submit a paper or talk proposal to this year’s Truth and Trust Online (TTO) conference (October 7-8, 2021, online).

We are excited to announce that a selection of the best technical papers will be invited to a special issue of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality.

The submission deadlines are just around the corner but its not too late to contribute :)

Technical papers deadline: July 30, 2021;  talk proposals deadline: August 13, 2021.

Call for Papers and Talk Proposals

We invite submissions of technical papers and talk proposals on technical solutions for addressing current challenges facing social media platforms on the following topics:

    • Misinformation and disinformation
    • Trustworthiness of COVID-19 news and guidance
    • Hate speech
    • Online harassment and cyberbullying
    • Credibility and fake reviews
    • Hyper-partisanship and bias
    • Image/video/audio verification
    • Fake amplification, polarization, and echo chambers
    • Transparency in content and source moderation
    • Privacy and anonymity requirements

We welcome technical papers of the following types: surveys, methods, reproduction papers, resource papers, case studies.

Authors of exceptional papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, which will also open to other submissions (deadline: November 15, 2021).

For technical papers, authors will be able to opt-out from the inclusion of accepted papers in the TTO proceedings, e.g., if they plan to publish their work elsewhere. For talk proposals, talk summaries may optionally be included in the TTO proceedings.

More information about the call for papers, talk proposals and the JDIQ special issue can be found here: https://truthandtrustonline.com/call-for-papers-2/<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandtrustonline.us17.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Da4f23076f7054c8e9a1620da3%26id%3Dec373059d5%26e%3D5db6c1f255&data=04%7C01%7C%7Caf3244fe4eec453258d308d9399230ad%7C569df091b01340e386eebd9cb9e25814%7C0%7C0%7C637604122318972844%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=TGRUQTNUmmIzUszXan42baSAF2KOlPE9psaw3EwKP90%3D&reserved=0>

We encourage wide participation from all interested parties and stakeholders on online media, including academics, startups and large industry, non-profit organizations and governmental institutions.

About The Conference on Truth and Trust Online

The Conference on Truth and Trust Online is an annual forum for academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and other stakeholders to discuss the problems facing (social) media platforms and technical solutions to understand and address them. TTO’s mission is to bring together all parties working toward improving the truthfulness and trustworthiness of online communications. More information about the conference is on the TTO website<https://truthandtrustonline.com/>.


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Yours sincerely,

Elena Kochkina (Queen Mary University of London)
on behalf of the Truth and Trust Online Organising committee



—
Dr. Elena Kochkina,
Postdoctoral Research Assistant,
Queen Mary University of London,
The Alan Turing Institute

Email: e.kochkina at qmul.ac.uk<mailto:e.kochkina at qmul.ac.uk>, ekochkina at turing.ac.uk<mailto:ekochkina at turing.ac.uk>
Twitter: @Elena_Kochkina