[ecrea] Call for Abstracts: Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media

Call for papers and call for participation

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Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open 
Online Media (MISDOOM)
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February 27 - March 1, 2019, Hamburg, Germany

www.misdoom.org

Online media have become a politically, economically, and 
organizationally critical infrastructure. Internet users all over the 
world can directly interact with each other and share private and open 
discussions. They can participate in political discussion or find and 
contribute information. Through online media, journalists have access to 
enormous amounts of information and public sentiment that increasingly 
become part of reporting. Politicians refine their positions and actions 
based on the (seemingly) public opinion, which they distill from online 
media. Others use these channels to distribute their views. Companies 
and resellers allow product reviews by users to provide crowd-based 
quality assurance.

In an ideal world, participation and openness can certainly foster free 
and democratic processes as well as beneficial societal interactions. 
However, beyond the desired space for free expression of public 
opinions, such openness also provides options for large-scaled and 
orchestrated manipulations. Groups of humans (so-called “trolls”) or 
semi- to fully-automated systems (so-called “social bots”) can bias or 
manipulate societal streams, perceptions, and multiplicators in society.

MISDOOM is a multidisciplinary international symposium that brings 
together researchers and practitioners from communication science, 
computer science, and economy, as well as journalists and online media 
professionals to discuss current topics, technical advances and societal 
challenges in the area of online media. Participants can discuss and 
contribute to the following (non-exclusive list of) topics:

* Manipulation of societies, politics, economy, and journalism by 
disinformation strategies (e.g., types of disinformation and 
manipulation, case studies, observations of campaigns and strategies, 
communication strategies, economic implications and threats)

* Technical and organizational means for manipulation (e.g., technical 
state of the art and advances in artificial intelligence and content 
generation, technical infrastructure and access to social networks)

* Human, technical and hybrid detection mechanisms for orchestrated 
manipulation or individual actors (e.g., indicator-based detection, 
machine learning, anomaly detection, monitoring systems and 
visualization, human task forces)

* Counter-measures on disinformation and manipulation (e.g., 
transparency approaches, technical limitations, organizational 
processes, behavioral changes, education, professional codices, legal 
actions)

* Future trends in online-media usage and societal influencing (e.g., 
development of platforms, disruption of traditional journalistic work, 
potential attack vectors in economy, journalism, politics, research 
challenges and open fields)

We invite researchers and practitioners to send original extended 
research abstracts, case studies, or position papers (max. 8 pages) 
before the Extended Abstract submission deadline 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=misdoom19) . International 
recognized scholars evaluate all abstracts for suitability according to 
international research standards. All accepted abstracts are eligible 
for oral or poster presentation at the conference. In a post-proceeding 
process, selected work will be invited to become part of a follow-up 
book publication. Therefore, authors have to extend their work to a full 
research paper, which is then subject to a standard peer review process.

Important Dates:

   Extended abstract submission (max. 8 pages, LNCS Springer style) 
due: January 14, 2019
   Notification of acceptance: 2 weeks after submission, latest January 
31, 2019
   Conference date: February 27 to March 1, 2017
   (Selected) Post-proceeding paper submission due: April 15, 2019
   (Selected) Post-proceeding paper notification: May 31, 2019
   Camera Ready submission for post proceedings: June 30, 2019

Conference Chairs:

Program Chair:
Frank Takes (Leiden University)
Annie Waldherr (University of Münster)

Publications Chair:
Mike Preuss (Leiden University)

General Chairs:
Christian Grimme (University of Münster)
Christian Stöcker (HAW Hamburg)
Thorsten Quandt (University of Münster)



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