[Commlist] Call for Abstracts: Socinfo’19 Workshop on Bias, Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda in Online News and Social Media

Workshop on Bias, Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda in 
Online News and Social Media

Workshop 
website:https://propaganda.qcri.org/bias-misinformation-workshop-socinfo19/

Tentative Workshop Date: November 18, 2019

Abstracts submission deadline: September 5, 2019 (23:59 PM Pacific 
Standard Time)

Co-located with Social Informatics 2019, November 18-21, Doha, Qatar.

In recent years, we have witnessed the rise of social media, which have 
enabled people to virtually share information with a large number of 
users with little-to-no regulation or quality control. On the one hand, 
this has enabled anyone with a computer and internet access to rapidly 
create and disseminate content. On the other hand, it has also opened 
the door for malicious users, including automated bots, to rapidly 
spread disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda, which can now 
reach audiences at an unprecedented scale. This has resulted in the 
proliferation of false information that is typically created either (a) 
to attract network traffic in order to secure financial gain through 
advertising revenue (e.g. clickbait), or (b) to affect individual 
people's beliefs - something that can ultimately lead to influencing 
major events such as political elections or views on public health. 
There are strong indications that false information was weaponized at an 
unprecedented scale during the 2016 U.S. and the 2018 Brazilian 
presidential campaigns, among many others. The workshop aims to bring 
together researchers from both academia and industry to discuss bias, 
disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda in online news and in 
social media.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

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    Bias

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    Bots

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    Check-worthiness

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    Claim extraction

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    Claim source detection

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    Clickbait

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    Deep fakes

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    Disinformation

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    Echo chambers

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    Fact-checking

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    Fake reviews

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    Harassment/bullying

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    Hate speech

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    Hyper-partisanship

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    Misinformation

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    Offensive language

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    Polarization

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    Propaganda identification/analysis

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    Seminar users

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    Source reliability

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    Stance detection

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    Supporting evidence retrieval

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    Trolls

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    Trust

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    Truth


Submission Format


We kindly ask you to submit abstracts addressing one of the topics above 
from the perspective of use cases, tools, resources, and preliminary 
experimental results.

Abstracts should be in Socinfo format (see 
https://www.springer.com/gb/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), 
1-2 pages  long. Abstracts will be reviewed by the workshop organizers 
and the authors of selected abstracts will be assigned a time slot for a 
short presentation (15 minutes each) to present their ideas. Selected 
abstracts will be made available on this website.

Send your submission to (socinfo-bias-workshop /at/ googlegroups.com) 
<mailto:(socinfo-bias-workshop /at/ googlegroups.com)>.

Workshop Organisers:

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    Giovanni da San Martino (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad
    Bin Khalifa University)

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    Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa
    University)

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    Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Università di Bologna)

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    Jisun An (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa
    University)

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    Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa
    University)

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    Banu Akdenizli (Northwestern University, Qatar)

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    Marc O. Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

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    Grant Franklin Totten (Aljazeera)

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