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The Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) is returning for its 6th edition on 02-04 September 2024. This year, the symposium is hosted by the University of Münster, Germany. MISDOOM values multidisciplinary research and is designed to be inclusive of different academic disciplines and practices.
The symposium provides a platform for researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners from various disciplines such as communication science, computer science, computational social science, political science, psychology, journalism, law, and media studies to come together and share their knowledge and insights on online disinformation.
(The submission deadline for full papers has passed. Please do not submit any more full papers.)
Symposium Topics
Participants can discuss and contribute to the following list of topics:
- Models for disinformation diffusion and social influence
- Approaches to and methods of studying disinformation (e.g., qualitative approaches, case studies, quantitative approaches, experiments)
- Automated fact-checking and disinformation detection
- Human computation approaches for disinformation detection (crowdsourcing, human-machine interaction)
- Counter-measures for disinformation and manipulation (e.g., censorship policies, behavioral changes, education, training, professional codices, legal actions, and regulations)
- Cross-platform campaigns and their impact (e.g., diffusion of disinformation and manipulation, observations of campaigns and strategies, communication strategies, hate speech)
- Factors contributing to disinformation beliefs or hampering corrections of false beliefs (e.g., political polarization, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias)
- User involvement with disinformation on various platforms (e.g., engagement, viewership)
- Generative AI tools and disinformation (e.g., ChatGPT, Midjourney, DALL-E), deep fakes, disinformation in pictures, video and audio data
- Data sets & data access in social media, Information quality (information quality dimensions, metrics, ethics of information quality)
- Benchmarking approaches for algorithmic solutions of malign content & campaign detection
- Other trending topics in mis- and disinformation research
Industry
Industries and other stakeholders are also invited to participate in the conference by submitting a contribution (full paper, extended abstract or poster abstract) describing their approach to countering or detecting disinformation.
Contribution Formats
- Full Paper, 6-15 pages including references, peer-reviewed (oral presentation; publication in Lecture Notes in Computer Science proceeding)
- Extended Abstracts, up to 3000 characters excluding references and not counting spaces, peer-reviewed (oral or posters presentation; will not be included in proceedings)
- One outstanding contribution in each of these formats will be awarded „Best Paper“ and „Best Abstract“.
PhD Workshop
The MISDOOM conference will be preceded by a PhD Workshop for PhD students of Communication and Computer Science, organized by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt and colleagues. The workshop will be held on the first day of the conference (September 2). To enable intensive group work and mentoring, a maximum of 12 doctoral students will be accepted. There will be four distinguished senior scholars serving as mentors (tba.).
All PhD students working on disinformation and related topics are welcome to apply. We encourage early career participants of MISDOOM, but the call is also open for people who are not submitting to the main conference.
As part of this workshop, participants will discuss their PhD projects in mentored groups with experts from the same field, receive advice on career planning, and will have lots of opportunities for interdisciplinary networking. The entire workshop will be held in English. Informal applications should include a short CV and a brief description of the dissertation topic (max. 2 pages, in English), that should state what the thesis is about, what stage the PhD is at, what methods are used and what is expected of the PhD workshop. Please send these files electronically to info@misdoom.org with the subject „PHD Workshop“.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline (Full Paper): 30 April 2024Submission Deadline (Extended Abstract): 15 May 2024Notification (Full Papers & Extended Abstracts): 15 June 2024Submission Deadline (PhD Workshop): 15 June 2024 15 July 2024Camera-ready (Full Paper): 15 June 2024- Symposium: 02-04 September 2024
- Submission Deadline time is 23:59 „anywhere on earth“
Submission Instructions
Given that we welcome both social scientists and computer scientists, and that the publication strategies of these fields differ, we solicit two types of contributions that, upon acceptance, result in the same opportunity to present at MISDOOM:
- Papers
Full papers to be published with Springer LNCS proceedings. 6-15 pages (including references) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format describing original unpublished and new research. The work should be structured like a research paper, and cover the context of the problem studied, the research question, approach/methodology, and results in 6 to 15 pages. It should be formatted according to the LNCS Word or LaTeX template. Such submissions will be judged based on scientific quality and relevance for the MISDOOM symposium. Please omit names of the contributors in your manuscript. - Extended Abstracts
Authors can also choose to submit an extended abstract. The extended abstract should not exceed 3000 characters excluding references and not counting spaces, and can also pertain to ongoing projects or new research ideas. If the work is ongoing, then please indicate the status of the work (finished, finished at the time of the conference, in progress, early ideas etc.). Abstracts must include the title, authors, their affiliation, the text of the abstract, and references, particularly if it involves previously published work. Abstract submissions are not archival and are not formally published (i.e. a submission does not take away the option to publish the work elsewhere, for example in a journal). Additionally, authors must submit a conference program abstract of no more than 150 words. Authors should add the suffix „(Extended Abstract)“ to the title of their extended abstract submission.
Abstracts will be collected in a booklet, so we kindly ask authors of accepted contributions to adopt the following style:- Font: Times New Roman
- Text size: 10pt, Section header: 12pt, Title: 14pt
- Left and right margins: 2 cm
- Top and bottom margins: 2,5 cm
- Reference style: plain
- Example templates for the LNCS format:
Important Note about Submissions
Both contribution types (papers and extended abstracts) must specify the discipline they are contributing to as keyword(s) in EquinOCS at the time of submission (they should enter at least one of the two keywords „computer science“ or „social science“ in the keyword box).
Requirements for final submission:
Both paper and abstract authors are required to upload a .zip file containing the source files of their papers (.doc/.docx, .tex files, images, etc.). Paper authors are required to to also include a completed copyright form in their .zip file (downloadable from here). The person signing the copyright form should be the corresponding author and signs the document on behalf of the other authors.
(The submission deadline for full papers has passed. Please do not submit any more full papers.)
