[Commlist] Call for Abstracts - Global Fact Academic Track (Deadline 18 Feb)

Conference: Global Fact 9 (international factchecking summit with 
academic track)
Date: 22 June 2022
Location: Oslo, Norway
Submission deadline: 18 February 2022; notifications by 25 March 2022


Global Fact 9 is the largest annual fact-checking summit, bringing 
together journalists, researchers, government and industry 
representatives, and of course, fact checkers. As the profile and 
community of this form of journalism grows in the face of 
misinformation, Global Fact provides an important venue for sharing best 
practices, networking, and identifying coming challenges. This year, 
Global Fact will be held at Oslo Metropolitan University in Oslo, Norway.

Global Fact 9 is currently planned as an in-person event, from June 22 – 
25, 2022.  (The academic track has the potential to include hybrid 
online and in-person sessions.) The first day of the summit, 22 June, 
will be devoted to an academic track, with several invited panelists and 
speakers addressing topics such as:

  * Best academic practices in—and potential contributions to—this
    developing field.
  * Fact-checking in the context of misinformation and increasing
    polarization.
  * Directions of fact-checking, e.g., towards more debunking and tech
    partnerships.
  * (Socio)technical tools–old, new, and yet-to-be-developed–in
    fact-checking.
  * Fact-checker safety–mental, emotional, and/or physical.
  * Collaborations between different types of actors, based on topics,
    aims, regions, languages, etc.
  * Regulation efforts aimed at big tech and platforms, and the impact
    on fact-checking partnerships and funding.
  * Media and information literacy in the age of COVID-19 and declining
    institutional trust.
  * The importance of publicly available data (e.g., national
    statistics, platform insights) and other resources for fact-checkers.
  * Fact-checking in the context of oppression–e.g., how it can be
    conducted and disseminated.

In addition to the invited presentations, we are reserving a portion of 
the academic track for lightning round presentations. These will entail 
discussions of your work, at whatever stage—conceptual, in progress, or 
finished—in a shorter time frame. Depending on the number of submissions 
accepted, presentations will likely be limited to 10 In addition to the 
invited presentations, we are reserving a portion of the academic track 
for lightning round presentations. These will entail discussions of your 
work, at whatever stage—conceptual, in progress, or finished—in a 
shorter time frame. Depending on the number of submissions accepted, 
presentations will likely be limited to 10 minutes with questions.*We 
are particularly interested in work from early career researchers, work 
that focuses on marginalized communities or regions, and/or work using 
new or innovative methods.*Potential topics might include, but are no 
way restricted to, the above list.

*If you are interested in presenting at this open session, please fill 
outthis form 
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Eh_I_oZiUEWJEfRG_Nr6H4dfutB_KaJIrPTIE7lxuflUREgySVg3MTJCQkZURUxWQUM3QTVNWFk4Wi4u>. 
Please include your institutional affiliation and contact information, a 
title, a description of what you’d like to present (~300 words), and a 
paragraph on the significance (~150 words).  The deadline for 
submissions is 18 February 2022, and notifications of selection will be 
on or before 25 March 2022.*

If you have questions, please feel free to (emailrebekahl /at/ oslomet.no). You 
can also contact the OsloMet-based team behind theSource Criticism and 
Mediated Disinformation <https://uni.oslomet.no/scam/>project.


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