[Air-L] DHOW 2025: CFP for the 2nd Workshop on Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web @ACM Multimedia 2025

[Gautam Kishore Shahi]

Dear all,

I am writing to inform you that the CFP for the 2nd Workshop on DHOW:
Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop.

The workshop will be conducted in a hybrid format to ensure maximum
participation.
Accommodating attendees both online and in person.

Submission deadline: July 11, 2025 AOE
Workshop website: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/
Co-located with ACMMM 2025 <https://acmmm2025.org/>
Dublin, Ireland, 27/28 October 2024

*Workshop Description*
With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is
easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also gets spread.
There are different harmful content available on different platforms in
multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers
multiple research directions. But from the user’s aspect, they are affected
by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and
hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a
particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms
and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social
media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news
articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study the
harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and
topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so
that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation,
disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel
methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image,
audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats.
The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2025.

We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers
and practitioners to exchange ideas, share the latest developments, and
collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful content
spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights
and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial
intelligence (AI) for the development of safer internet. In addition to
attracting high-quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the
aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related
areas to form a community.

*Submissions Topics*
• Studying different types of harmful content
• Computational fact-checking & Misinformation Detection
• Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content
• Harassment, Bullying, and Hate Speech Detection
• Explainable AI for Harmful Content Analysis
• Multimodal and Multilingual Harmful Content Detection, such as fake news,
spam, and troll detection.
• Deepfake and Synthetic Media
• Ethical & Societal Implications of AI in Content Moderation
• Both Qualitative and Quantitative studies on harmful content
• Psychological effects of harmful content, like mental health
• Approaches for data collection or data annotation using multimodal large
models
on harmful content
• User study on the effects of harmful content on human beings

*Submissions*
- Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call
- Submission Link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW

*Important Dates*
Submission deadline: extended to July 11, 2025
Notification of acceptance: August 01, 2025
Camera-ready papers due: August 11, 2025
Workshop date: October 27/28, 2025

*Workshop organizers*
• Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
• Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
• Gautam Kishore Shahi (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom )
• Durgesh Nandini (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Organisers,
DHOW 2025