[Air-L] Conference on Harmful Online Communication (CHOC2023), 16-17 Nov, Cologne Germany & online

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On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 10:14 AM Weller, Katrin via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> Dear all, maybe the following event is of interest to some of you. Best
> wishes, Katrin.
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> CONFERENCE ON HARMFUL ONLINE COMMUNICATION (CHOC2023)
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> Location: Cologne, Germany, and online
> Conference Dates: 16.-17. November 2023
> Deadline for Submission: 30.08.2023 (AoE)
> Website:
> https://www.gesis.org/forschung/tagungen-und-konferenzen/gesis-tagungen/conference-on-harmful-online-communication-choc2023
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> The event is funded by the Thyssen Foundation.
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> ABOUT:
> A two-day hybrid conference with sessions focused on different aspects of
> Harmful Online Communication and talks from leading experts. The main event
> will take place in Cologne, Germany, with the option of online
> participation.
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> ORGANIZED BY:
> Katrin Weller, Pascal Siegers, Indira Sen, Christina Dahn (GESIS
> Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne)
> Contact: css.events at gesis.org<mailto:css.events at gesis.org>
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> OUTLINE:
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> Harmful Online Communication refers to a variety of ongoing activities on
> communication platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and
> many more. Independent of the platform, harm can, for example, occur in the
> form of hate speech towards different groups, including racist or sexist
> content. Harmful online communication can also include aspects of mis- and
> disinformation, or threats of physical violence. Depending on the type of
> content, different strategies may be needed to detect it and to apply
> appropriate counter measures. The aim of this conference is to bring
> together a group of experts in computer-based detection and analysis of
> harmful online communication to discuss new developments in the field. The
> focus will lie on theoretical concept definitions, data quality, and
> comparative measurement tools. This will benefit the field of harmful
> online communication studies by building a community around validity and
> reliability and creating a baseline that can inform the building of
> comparative research and shared knowledge. The output of the conference
> will inform the future work in Computational Social Sciences and help more
> traditional social scientists to improve their use of data from online
> platforms.
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> CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
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> - Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen
> - Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen & University of Washington
> - Iginio Gagliardone, University of the Witwatersrand
> - Libby Hemphill, University of Michigan
> - Homa Hosseinmardi, University of Pennsylvania
> - Tetsuro Kobayashi, Waseda University
> - Anne Lauscher, University of Hamburg
> - Philip Lorenz-Spreen, Max-Planck-Institute Berlin
> - Ilia Markov, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> - Diana Rieger, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München
> - Björn Ros, University of Edinburgh
> - Mattia Samory, Sapienza University of Rome
> - Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo
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> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (for ONSITE POSTER SESSION in Cologne)
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> CHOC2023 welcomes proposals for an onsite poster session on 16 November
> 2023 at the Conference on Harmful Online Communication in person in
> Cologne. This conference seeks to bring together a community of researchers
> from the (Computational) Social Sciences and related disciplines to discuss
> data quality, methods, ethics, theoretical work, and practical challenges
> related to harmful online communication.
> Topics may include, but are not limited to:
> * Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research on topics subsumed
> under harmful online communication including but not limited to abusive
> language, hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, and online harassment
> * Computer-mediated approaches for tackling such types of communication
> such as content moderation and policy making.
> * Computational methods for research on harmful online communication, such
> as network analysis, textual and image analysis, large language models and
> machine learning.
> * Resource creation for studying harmful online communication such as
> datasets, codebooks, annotation tasks, and taxonomies
> * Theoretical discussions and practical concepts related to countering
> misinformation and harmful online communication.
> * Ethical and legal aspects of Harmful Online Communication research.
> * Bias and inequalities of (automated) hate speech detection, datasets,
> and analysis methods
> * Development of communal resources in Harmful Online Communication
> research
> Presentations at the poster session can be of published work, in
> preparation for publication or work in-progress. Submissions are open to
> researchers from all career stages, including PhD candidates and Master
> students. Abstracts of up to 500 words (excluding references) should be
> submitted via email to css.events at gesis.org<mailto:css.events at gesis.org>
> until 30 August 2023 (AoE).
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> PARTICIPATION:
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> PLEASE NOTE:The number of poster presentations is limited, given that it
> will only take place in person in Cologne. In case of a higher number of
> high-quality submissions, we may have to limit both the number of accepted
> posters and the registration to first authors of the posters. Co-authors
> and other attendees will be admitted if space permits and potentially be
> wait-listed.
> Online participation will be available for everyone interested, but
> registration will be required to receive the access information.
> POSTER PRESENTERS NEED TO PRESENT IN PERSON.
> REGISTRATION FEE: Eur 60,- for on-site participation in Cologne / free
> online participation (poster presenters need to present in-person)
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> Dr. Katrin Weller (she/her)
> Team Lead "Digital Society Observatory"
> Dept. Computational Social Science
> GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
> Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
> D-50667 Cologne
> https://www.gesis.org/en/institute/staff/person/katrin.weller
>
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