[Air-L] CFP: Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm, Symposium and Special Issue of the Journal of Online Trust and Safety

[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 on Cryptocurrency and Societal Harm.


The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers for a conversation on cryptocurrency and its links to crime and other socially harmful activities (broadly defined). Topics of interest include but are not limited to:


  *   New anti-money laundering laws or other regulations for cryptocurrency
  *   Money laundering and cryptocurrency
  *   Money mixing or “tumbler” services
  *   Ransomware groups, including tracing payments to these groups and mapping connections between them
  *   Darknet marketplaces
  *   Cryptocurrency scams (typosquatting, exit scams, pump and dump of cryptocurrency coins)
  *   Analysis of social media and messaging posts about illegal activity or evading regulations tied to cryptocurrency
  *   Understanding the use of “privacy” coins like Monero, Dash, and Zcash
  *   Terrorism financing linked to cryptocurrency


The full call can be found here: https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/12/3


Timeline

Letter of inquiry submission deadline: February 15, 2022

Desk decisions: March 1, 2022

Draft submission for symposium: April 1, 2022

Symposium date: April 15, 2022

Paper submission for special issue: May 15, 2022

Publication date of special issue: August 31, 2022


Submission Instructions

Authors interested in submitting an article for the symposium and/or the special issue should follow the journal’s standard submission process by sending a letter of inquiry (LOI) by February 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 in April 2022. We hope this can be a hybrid in-person and remote symposium, though this will depend on COVID-19 protocols. Full paper submissions for the special issue are due May 15, and if accepted will be published near the end of August 2022.

Questions about the special issue or symposium may be directed to the guest editor, Karen Nershi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Internet Observatory (nershi at stanford.edu).