Workshop Description

Social media platforms and the web in general play an outsized role in the media consumption process. They have expanded the reach of media messaging through advertising and digital publications, and given a mechanism for expressing opinions and views to anyone with internet access. The flip side of this expanded access has found these platforms to harbor the potential for attacks and abuse on information processes, through misinformation campaigns organized by foreign adversaries and financially motivated actors , misleading and polarizing views from the extremes of the political spectrum receiving viral distribution and general fake-news / misinformation tactics emerging as new threats.

This workshop aims to bring together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to engage in a discussion about combating such threats to the information validity from social networks and the web. The WSDM Conference offers an excellent forum for such a discussion, and we expect the workshop to be of interest to everyone in the community. The topic of the workshop is also interdisciplinary, overlapping with psychology, sociology, and economics, while raising legal and ethical questions --- we expect it to attract a broad audience.

Submission Guidelines

We invite two types of submissions, technical papers and talk proposals

• Technical manuscripts must be 8 pages long for full papers, and 4 pages long for short papers. We invite technical papers of the following types: analysis paper (focus is to generate new insights, rather than the specific method applied), methodology paper (focus is to test the effectiveness of a proposed method), reproduction paper (reproduce results documented in prior work), resource paper (presents a new resource, such as a dataset or tool), and use case paper (presents new insights about a specific use case, such as an event or a community).
• Talk proposals should be 2 pages long, describing the content of a roughly 20-minute talk (the actual length will be determined based on program constraints). We invite submissions from scholars, activists, developers, lawyers, ethics experts, fact-checkers, public servants, journalists, and all-around researchers. 

All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. They must be written in English, and formatted using the standard two-column ACM Sigconf proceedings format. The submission is single-blind.

Accepted papers will either be presented as contributed talks, or as posters. All accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings (CEUR-WS).

Please submit papers and talk proposals through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=integrity23 

Important Dates

•     Paper submission: 15 Jan 2023
•     Paper notification: 1 Feb 2023
•     Workshop date: 3 March 2023

List of Topics

• Low quality, borderline, and offensive content and behaviors: Methods for detecting and mitigating low quality and offensive content and behaviors, such as clickbait, fake engagement, nudity and violence, bullying, and hate speech.
• Personalized treatment of low quality content: Identification, measurement, and reduction of bad experiences.
• COVID-19 on social media: Authoritative health information; Covid misinformation; Vaccine hesitancy; Anti-vax movements.
• Misinformation: Detecting and combating misinformation; Prevalence and virality of misinformation; Misinformation sources and origins; Source and content credibility; Inoculation strategies; Deep and shallow fakes.
• Polarization: Models and metrics for polarization; Echo chambers and filter bubbles; Opinion Extremism and radicalization; Algorithms for mitigating polarization.
• Fairness in Integrity: Fairness in the detection and mitigation of integrity issues with respect to sensitive attributes such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and political affiliation.
• Robustness in Integrity: Methods for improving the detection of offensive content and behaviors against intentional manipulation of text, images, and videos.

Committees

Organizing committee

• Lluis Garcia-Pueyo, Meta
• Panayiotis Tsaparas, University of Ioannina
• Prathyusha Senthil Kumar, Meta
• Timos Sellis, Athena Research Center
• Paolo Papotti, EURECOM
• Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Giuseppe Manco, ICAR-CNR
• Tudor Trufinescu, Meta
• Gireeja Ranade, UC Berkeley
• James Verbus, LinkedIn
• Mehmet Tek, Google
• Anthony McCosker, Swinburne University

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to integrity-workshop@googlegroups.com