[Air-L] CySoc 2025 Workshop at AAAI-ICWSM

[Ugur Kursuncu]

Call for Papers: CySoc 2025 - International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats @ICWSM 2025
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Website: https://cy-soc.github.io/2025/ <https://cy-soc.github.io/2025/> 
Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cysoc2025 <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cysoc2025> 

The Sixth International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats, CySoc 2025, will be held in conjunction with the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 23, 2025. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format (both in person in Copenhagen, Denmark, and online). The accepted papers will be presented in person at the CySoc 2025 workshop and published in the workshop proceedings of the conference. 

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in computer and social sciences from both academia and industry to exchange ideas on understanding the multi-faceted social, psychological, cultural, emotional, communicative, and linguistic aspects of harmful content while leading the discussion on building novel computational methods to reliably detect, derive meaning from, interpret, understand, and counter them. 

We welcome papers that employ quantitative and/or qualitative, analytical, and theoretical approaches to examine a diverse range of issues related to harmful online communications. Papers that discuss resources, data, or tools are also welcome as either demos or short/regular talks. This year, we offer a spotlight topic on “Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI,” and special consideration will be given to submissions that focus on this timely and important topic.

Topics for research and discussions include (but are not limited to):

Spotlight topic: Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI

Online extremism
Harassment and cyberbullying
Hate speech
Misinformation and disinformation (e.g., epidemics of fake news, images, and videos during a disaster, health issues, and elections)
Gender-based violence
Human trafficking
Illicit drug trafficking
Mental health implications of social media
Ethical considerations on privacy-preserving social media analytics
Emotional and psychological support
Trust relationship and community dynamics
Relationship between the social web and mainstream news media
Cultural implications of social web usage
Influencer identification and community detection for movements

Submission guideline

As per the AAAI-ICWSM guidelines, All papers must be submitted as high-resolution PDF files, formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper. Full papers are recommended to be eight pages long and must be at most 11 pages long, including only the main text and the references. The mandatory Ethics Checklist (and brief additional Ethics Statement, if desired, see below), optional appendices, etc., do not count toward the page limit and should be placed after the references. Appendices, if they exist, should be placed after the Ethics Checklist. Revision papers and final camera-ready full papers can be up to 12 pages. Dataset papers must be no longer than 10 pages, Poster papers must be no longer than four pages, and Demo descriptions must be no longer than two pages. No source files (Word or LaTeX) are required at the time of submission for review; only the PDF file is permitted. Finally, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase, and no copyright form is required until a paper is accepted for publication. 
For more information: https://www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/index.html#cfp-full-papers <https://www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/index.html#cfp-full-papers> 

Anonymity: The review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the author names or affiliations at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review.

To submit papers, please go to https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cysoc2025 <https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=cysoc2025>.

Co-organizers:
Ugur Kursuncu, Georgia State University, GA, USA.
Matthew DeVerna, Indiana University, IN, USA.
Francesco Pierri, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Kai-Cheng Yang, Northeastern University, MA, USA.
Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy.
Jeremy Blackburn, The State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA.


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Ugur Kursuncu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Georgia State University