Submissions

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit extended abstracts or short papers. Submissions are 2 to 4 pages in length, plus unlimited pages of references. Authors can choose to make their submissionarchival or non-archival. We invite submissions including (but not limited to):

1. works-in-progress
2. research or research proposals
3. provocations or critical approaches

Submissions are 2-4 page PDF's submitted via Easy Chair and should follow the AAAI format. Authors may include an appendix but submissions should be self-contained as reviewers are not asked to review appendices. Review will be blind and submissions should be reasonably anonymized. Accepted submissions will have the option of publishing their work in the proceedings of ICWSM 2021.

Topics

Topics that submissions might address include, but are not limited to:

1. Contextualizing false beliefs and information issues
   • Historical context and meta-reviews of studies
   • Fundamental questions of truth, inquiry, and epistemology online
   • Considerations of accessibility, disability and marginalization
2. Measuring credibility and beliefs impact on the online ecosystem
   • Metrics, and methods to quantify credibility and false belief
   • Research on human experiences with information credibility systems and issues
   • Data sets that surface credibility issues and false beliefs online
3. Mitigating misinformation and supporting credibility
   • Systems that build information credibility or reduce the spread of false beliefs
   • Challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration between research and practice
   • Speculative design, value-sensitive design, and critical design approaches.

We encourage submissions from across the political spectrum and welcome work treating information credibility from multiple perspectives.