November 18, 2019
Doha, Qatar
Deadline: September 5, 2019 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)
Workshop website here.
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:
- Bias
- Bots
- Check-worthiness
- Claim extraction
- Claim source detection
- Clickbait
- Deep fakes
- Disinformation
- Echo chambers
- Fact-checking
- Fake reviews
- Harassment/bullying
- Hate speech
- Hyper-partisanship
- Misinformation
- Offensive language
- Polarization
- Propaganda identification/analysis
- Seminar users
- Source reliability
- Stance detection
- Supporting evidence retrieval
- Trolls
- Trust
- 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 here), 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@googlegroups.com.
Workshop Organisers:
- Giovanni da San Martino (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
- Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
- Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Università di Bologna)
- Jisun An (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
- Haewoon Kwak (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
- Banu Akdenizli (Northwestern University, Qatar)
- Marc O. Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)
- Grant Franklin Totten (Aljazeera)
