[ecrea] 22nd International Conference on Information Technology and Journalism

*22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND JOURNALISM*

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*Workshop: Fake news and its implications on democracy *

*Conference: Big data – Small world*

Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 29 – June 1 2017

Supported by the IPSA RC10

Organized by the Faculty of Political Science and InMed Institute

Call for papers

InMed Institute and Faculty of Political Science supported by IPSA’s 
Research Committee 10 on Electronic democracy and in partnership with 
DEL research network are organizing IPSA Workshop on „Fake news.“ We 
would like to hear about:

Workshop topics

•             History of fake news and its origins

•             Fake news websites

•             Future of journalism in times of post-truth and fake news

•             Fake news in political campaigns

•             „Alternative facts“ and Trump's campaign

•             Fake news and democracy

•             Importance of relevant sources and how to distinguish 
false and truth information

•             Exposing and challengingfake news

•             Fake news, misinformation and propaganda

Conference topics

•             From datafication to data activism

•             'Dark' uses of Big data

•             Applications of Big data and the way in which the data is 
collected and organised

•             Management of Big data, Data mining and statistical 
predictions

•             Data journalism

•             Big data and Social Media

•             Political campaigns and Big data

Interested participants should first submit an abstract (a 300-word 
outline) of their paper by 25 March, 2017 indicating clearly its subject 
and scope, and including a provisional title. The abstracts received 
will be peer-reviewed and authors will be notified of the outcome by 10 
April, 2017.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be required to send the full paper or 
presentation by 25, May 2017.

The conference language is English.

We invite individuals from academic and practical backgrounds as well as 
public administration offices, public bodies, NGOs, education 
institutions and independent organizations, to submit their contributions.

Costs :

EUR 70 – for authors

EUR 85 – for participants

The fee includes conference entry, proceedings and social program during 
the conference.

Pre-conference social program is to be announced.

Important dates:

March 25         Abstract submission

April 10 Notification of acceptance of abstracts

May 25 Full paper/presentation submission

May 29  -  30  Workshop

May 31 – June 1     Conference

Submissions

Please send all submissions by electronic mail in pdf format 
(tomarina /at/ edemokracija.hr).

All submissions are subject to a double-blind full paper review by at 
least 2 reviewers. To facilitate the review process, please write a 
separate cover sheet with the paper title and affiliation/s and omit the 
affiliations in the actual paper.

Participants who are not contributors (i.e. who do not propose a paper) 
can apply through our web site www.edemokracija.hr. Please note that the 
number of non-contributing participants is limited so we encourage you 
to apply as early as possible.

For further information please visit: www.edemokracija.hr

Workshop Chairs :

Prof. dr. Nenad Prelog (president) (nenad /at/ edemokracija.hr)

Doc.dr. Domagoj Bebić (secretary general) (domagoj /at/ edemokracija.hr)

Contact Details :

Marina Jurić (coordinator)

(marina /at/ edemokracija.hr)

Šibenska 1, 10 000 Zagreb, Hrvatska


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