MISDOOM 2022

Call for Papers

After three successful editions, the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) returns for a 4th edition, this time hosted as fully virtual conference by Boise State University in October 11-12, 2022.

The symposium brings together researchers from multiple disciplines, including communication science, computer science, computational social science, political science, psychology, journalism, and media studies, as well as industry and practitioners in journalism and online media.
The symposium has a strong multidisciplinary character and aims to cater to the habits of different disciplines.

Symposium Topics

Participants can discuss and contribute to the following (non-exclusive list of) topics:

• Cross-platform campaigns and their impact (e.g., diffusion of disinformation and manipulation, observations of campaigns and strategies, communication strategies, hate speech)
• Approaches to studying misinformation (e.g., qualitative approaches, case studies, quantitative approaches, experiments)
• User involvement with misinformation on various platforms (e.g., engagement, viewership)
• Counter-measures on mis- and disinformation and manipulation (e.g., censorship policies, behavioral changes, education, professional codices, legal actions)
• Factors that lead to belief in misinformation and correction of those false beliefs (e.g., political polarization, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias)
• Social networking platforms, censorship policies, and impacts (e.g. policies to counter hate speech, health misinformation)
• Trending topics in mis- and disinformation research (e.g., health-related misinformation)
• Automated fact-checking and misinformation detection
• Argumentation reasoning for misinformation detection
• Models for misinformation diffusion
• Robustness of automated fact-checkers (e.g., AI-generated misinformation, generating adversarial examples for automatic fact-checkers, transparency, and explainability)
• Human computation approaches for misinformation detection (crowdsourcing, human-machine interaction)
• Information quality (information quality dimensions, metrics, ethics of information quality)

Industry

Industries are also invited to participate in the conference by submitting a contribution describing their approach to countering or detecting misinformation.

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:

Full (and short) papers

Full papers to be published with Springer LNCS proceedings. Up to 15 pages (excluding 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.

Shorter papers up to 7 pages (excluding references) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format and describing on-going original unpublished research or new late-breaking results are also welcome. These contributions will be published with Springer LNCS proceedings as well.

The best full and short papers will be considered for a special issue in a top-tier computer science journal.

Extended Abstracts

Authors can also choose to submit an Extended Abstract instead of a full paper. This extended abstract should be up to 500 words (not including references), and should briefly describe the work that will be presented. The extended abstract can be based on previously published work, ongoing work in progress, or even a new research idea or agenda. No template is provided, but at least the title, authors, their affiliation, the text of the extended abstract, and, especially in the case of previously published work, reference(s) should be included. Submissions are non-archival, and not formally published. Authors should also submit an abstract for the conference program of up to 150 words.

Camera-ready and registration

Link to camera-ready instructions

Each contribution (extended abstract or paper) requires the payment of a registration fee of $30 by August 24, 2022. 

Link to registration

Please note that without paying the registration fee, you cannot present your contribution (extended abstract or paper) at the conference, and your paper (if full or short) is not going to be included in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates

• Submission Deadline: June 17, 2022 (Extended)
• Notification: July 22, 2022
• Camera ready: August 24, 2022
• Registration: August 24, 2022
• Cost of Attendance: $30 (presenting authors), free (non-presenting attendees)

Submission Link