[Air-L] CFP: Uncommon yet Consequential Online Harms

[Daniel Bateyko]

Hi all,

The Stanford Internet Observatory<https://io.stanford.edu/> and Jeff Hancock (Department of Communication<https://comm.stanford.edu/>, Stanford) have started a new open-access journal, the Journal of Online Trust and Safety<http://tsjournal.org/>. We invite researchers across disciplines to submit their work for a symposium and a special issue next year on Uncommon yet Consequential Online Harms. A consistent finding from research on harmful online behaviors in the US is that they tend to be concentrated among a small set of individuals.  Whether examining the amplification of misinformation, consumption of radical content, or posting of hate speech, a small set of individuals typically accounts for the majority of the behavior. Despite this statistical infrequency, the social consequences of such behavior can be substantial, especially for groups targeted by these individuals. So, the question is: We know these uncommon yet consequential actors exist, now what?

The full call can be found here: https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/11/4


Authors interested in submitting an article for the symposium and/or the special issue should follow the journal’s standard submission process<https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/about/submissions> by sending a letter of inquiry (LOI) by January 15, 2022. Authors should note in their submission whether they wish to be considered for the symposium, special issue, or both. The symposium will be non-archival (no published proceedings), and attendees are not required to submit a full paper nor to make a submission for the special issue. Attending the symposium is not a prerequisite for submitting an article for the special issue.



The symposium will be hosted by the Stanford Internet Observatory and held in-person on Stanford’s campus in March 2022 (pending public health conditions), though authors can also participate remotely. Full paper submissions for the special issue are due April 15, and if accepted will be published near the end of July 2022. Questions about the special issue or symposium may be directed to the guest editor, Ronald Robertson, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory (ronalder at stanford.edu).