[Commlist] cfp: International Workshop: Hate and Disinformation on WhatsApp: Global Perspectives

CALL FOR PAPERS

*International Workshop**
**Hate and Disinformation on WhatsApp: Global Perspectives**
**Workshop dates 30, 31 March 2023*

*Closing date for extended abstracts: 30 November 2022*

Venue: Stellenbosch Institute for
Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa

Hosted by
Sahana Udupa, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
Herman Wasserman, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

This workshop aims to examine the cross-platform messaging service 
WhatsApp and its relationship with disinformation and extreme speech in 
a global perspective. Our objective is to contribute to disinformation 
and extreme speech scholarship by exploring the unique cultures, 
affordances and challenges of WhatsApp. Based on insights from different 
regions and diverse contexts of use, we aim to map the differences, 
similarities and connections globally, and highlight regulatory and 
methodological challenges that encrypted information services such as 
WhatsApp have raised for academic research and policymaking. WhatsApp's 
popularity has been linked to low Internet connectivity and high data 
costs in the global South contexts but its uptake in different regions 
of the world, including parts of the global South, awaits systematic 
research around how distinct user practices, infrastructural conditions 
and political deployments have developed around the messaging service, 
and how such features have uniquely inflected disinformation and extreme 
speech environments.

The workshop will have five interrelated focal points: Culture, 
regulation, content, infrastructure and method.

More details 
here:https://journalism.sun.ac.za/en/2022/11/16/call-for-papers-hate-and-disinformation-on-whatsapp-global-perspectives-workshop/ 
<https://journalism.sun.ac.za/en/2022/11/16/call-for-papers-hate-and-disinformation-on-whatsapp-global-perspectives-workshop/> 


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