[Commlist] Call for papers - comments, hate speech, disinformation, and public communication regulation

COMMENTS, HATE SPEECH, DISINFORMATION, AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATION REGULATION

We are happy to invite you to participate in International Scientific 
Conference Comments, Hate Speech, Disinformation, and Public 
Communication Regulation in Zagreb, Sheraton hotel, on 16 and 17 
September 2021

Technological development has brought rapid and simple spread of speech 
in professional and civic communication. The digital public space is a 
space of democratic freedoms for each individual, but it is often a 
space of numerous disinformation and fake news, concerning offensive 
speech and discriminatory speech targeting ethnic, religious, sexual and 
other minorities, immigrants, and various vulnerable groups. Readers’ 
comments can be an important form of argumentative civic debate, but 
they are also a way for citizens to express aggressive, inciting, or 
offensive attitudes toward others or use hate speech. Both media and 
other business entities on the internet encounter this phenomenon of 
digital communication and try to resist it in different ways. In the 
issues between freedom of speech and censorship of public speech, there 
is a daily intellectual struggle for the right to information, media 
freedom, internet neutrality. How should our legislation participate in 
this, what are the experiences of different national legal regulations? 
What does the struggle against disinformation and hate speech involve, 
is this fight a multidimensional task in the age of digital 
communication, which strategies are acceptable, which stakeholders 
should be involved and which place belongs to self-regulation and which 
to the regulatory system?

Topics to be covered:

   *   Legal aspects and freedom of speech in the regulation of public 
communication
   *   Fight against disinformation
   *   Hate speech in the public media space
   *   Hate speech in the citizens’ comments
   *   Readers’ comments as a form of political participation
   *   The impact of citizens’ comments on the journalistic profession
   *   The impact of citizens’ comments on business in tourism and 
other professions
   *   The role of self-regulation in regulating disinformation and 
unacceptable forms of speech
   *   Methodological approaches in scientific research of 
misinformation and comments on the Internet (big data)
   *   Network tools for collecting, analysing, and visualising online 
forms of discourse
   *   Analysis of sentiment in offensive and insulting speech 
according to vulnerable groups

ORGANISERS:
Agency for Electronic Media: www.aem.hr<http://www.aem.hr/ 
<http://www.aem.hr/>>
Media Research: 
[http://www.mediaresearch.cro.net<http://www.mediaresearch.cro.net/en/]www.mediaresearch.cro.net<http://www.mediaresearch.cro.net/en/>

CO-ORGANISER:
Scientific Council for the Theatre, Film, Radio and Television of the 
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts: http://info.hazu.hr/hr/ 
<http://info.hazu.hr/hr/>

Additional information can be found on conference website: 
https://conference2021.aem.hr/?lang=en 
<https://conference2021.aem.hr/?lang=en>

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