Mediate 2020: The First International Workshop on Media and Misinformation Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center Atlanta, GA, United States, June 8, 2020 |
Conference website | https://mediateworkshop.github.io |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2020 |
Submission deadline | April 30, 2020 |
Overview
The ICWSM-2020 Workshop MEDIATE aims to bring together media practitioners and technologists to discuss the new obstacles and opportunities that are established by the modern era of information diffusion. Particular emphasis will be given to interdisciplinary interactions that will enable participants to assess the current consensus and outline future challenges.
The theme for MEDIATE-2020 is misinformation, i.e., inaccurate or incomplete information that heavily permeats our day-to-day news consumption.
Topics
Misinformation is regarded as a problem that has reached new heights in the current information sphere, partly due to the ease, the diversity of mediums, the reach, and the consequences of information dissemination.
MEDIATE's topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Political Misinformation
- Traditional phenomena in political misinformation such as filter bubbles, echo chambers, and polarisation
- Intentional or unintentional self-misinformation, i.e., how well people consume information, whether it is authentic or fake
- Analysis on how dire, measurable or controllable are these phenomena and what is the effect of time on them
- Scientific Misinformation
- Studies on pseudo-scientific news that have been deceived the public (e.g., the anti-vaccination movement or the coronavirus remedies quackery)
- Discussions on the journalists' trade-off between using an appealing and accessible language, and accurately reporting research findings
- Methodologies for effective communication of science to a non-specialized, broad audience via news
- Social Initiatives against Misinformation
- Redesign proposals of news ecosystems with an enhanced role for the key actors (e.g., regulators, sociologists, educators, scientists, etc.)
- Media practitioners perception on the shift from traditional journalism to computational journalism (i.e., an outline of main opportunities and caveats that are acknowledged)
- Personalisation, moderation of user engagement, and other concrete examples of how scientific innovation affects the spread of misinformation
Venue
The conference will be held in Atlanta, USA.
Contact
Please visit https://mediateworkshop.github.io/ for contact information.