[Air-L] Call for or Papers: Symposium on Misinformation and Global Communication

[Louisa Shu Ying Ha]

Online Media and Global Communication Call for or Papers: Symposium on Misinformation and Global Communication


Digital media technology has accelerated the spread of false or misleading information, particularly amid the pandemic of COVID-19, making it a global social concern and an emerging research topic for various social science disciplines. To date, a variety of scholarship has investigated the various forms of misinformation, their spreading patterns, methods of detection and dispelling, the causes and effects of misinformation, etc. However, more research is still needed to address the global dissemination of misinformation.

We are soliciting extended abstracts or full papers for a variety of presentations at our symposium, “Misinformation and Global Communication,” to be held on March 12, 2022, in Shanghai. The symposium will take a hybrid format, consisting of in-person and virtual meetings.

We welcome innovative and original research proposals addressing the theme of our symposium from all disciplines, methodologies, and professions, including case studies, quantitative and qualitative research, data and network science, etc. Some possible topics include but are not limited to:


  *   Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news on social media
  *   COVID-19 misinformation
  *   The effects of misinformation on audience
  *   Comparative Study on fake news
  *   Fact-checking
  *   New methodologies to study misinformation
  *   The ethic of misinformation
  *   Digital literacy on misinformation
  *   Misinformation inventions
  *   The cultural implications of misinformation
  *   Other related topics


Please submit an abstract or research proposal with a minimum of 500 words for your presentation. Submissions should be sent via email globalopinion at shisu.edu.cn<mailto:globalopinion at shisu.edu.cn> by February 15, 2022. Decisions for the conference presentation will be communicated on February 25, 2022.

High-quality articles will be selected to present at our symposium “Misinformation and Global Communication,” co-sponsored by the School of Journalism and Communication at Shanghai International Studies University, Center for Global Public Opinion of China, and the Online Media and Global Communication (OMGC) journal. OMGC is a new free open-access English language referred journal published quarterly by De Gruyter and sponsored by Shanghai International Studies University.  It aims to publish high quality, innovative and original research on global communication, especially in the use of global online media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Weibo, WeChat, Wikipedia, websites, blogs, etc., in an effort to make theoretical contributions under the contextual scenarios of and based on practices of online media and global communication, particularly in but not limited to the Global South.  Selected papers from the symposium will be published in Online Media and Global Communication after peer review.