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CALL FOR PAPERS
Elsevier - Online Social Networks and Media Journal
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/
Special Issue on Disinformation, Hoaxes and Propaganda within Online
Social Networks and Media
Submission Deadline: March 20, 2020
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Manuscripts can be submitted continuously until the deadline. Once a
paper is submitted, the review process will start immediately. Accepted
papers will be published continuously in the journal (in the first issue
available as soon as the paper is accepted). All accepted papers will be
listed together in an online virtual special issue published in the
journal website.
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Online Social Networks and Media natively convey the information quickly
and diffusely. They are 'optimised' for posting and sharing catchy and
sensationalist news. Problematic messages may span biased information
aiming to influence communities and agendas to deliberate lies meant to
mislead users. Whatever the strategy adopted for spreading false news
(like support of automatic accounts and presence of trolls to inflame
crowds), this would not be effective if there were no audience willing
to believe them. The quest for belonging to a community and reassuring
answers, the adherence to one's viewpoint: these are key factors for
people to contribute to the success of disinformation diffusion. That's
why the battle against disinformation must be fought at both
technological and sociological level.
This special issue seeks high-quality scientific articles (both
theoretical and experimental) on using Online Social Networks and Media
(OSNEM) data for the analysis of hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation
fabrication and spread on social media, automatic techniques to be
embedded in OSNEM platforms to block/prevent their diffusion, and
countermeasures to dissuade people to believe/diffuse them.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the design and
implementation of methodologies and techniques to detect disinformation
and/or raise the users' awareness to the threats represented by
disinformation, including:
Modelling and analysis techniques to study/predict the dynamics of the
spread of disinformation;
Text mining, graph mining, network and behavioural analyses to detect
disinformation;
Reputation systems to support the detection - or mitigate the effects -
of disinformation;
Disinformation strategies;
Understanding and guiding the societal reaction in the presence of
disinformation;
Supervised/unsupervised approaches to let accounts’ automation degree
emerge from the crowd;
Computational fact-checking;
Detection of information polarization in online communities;
Definition and evaluation of novel metrics to verify news veracity;
Domain-free approaches to fight disinformation (i.e., context
independent w.r.t. accounts, news, reviews, posts, tweets, etc..);
Interplay between OSNEM social network structures and
diffusion/prevention of disinformation;
Behavioural models behind disinformation diffusion/prevention obtained
from large-scale OSNEM data.
Data-driven approaches, supported by publicly available datasets, are
more than welcome.
Guest Editors
Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
Marinella Petrocchi, IIT-CNR, Italy
Carolina Scarton, University of Sheffield, UK
*** Instructions for submission ***
Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under
review by other journals or conferences. Papers previously published in
conference proceedings are eligible for submission if the submitted
manuscript is a substantial revision and extension of the conference
version. In this case, authors should indicate the previous
publication(s) in the cover letter and are also required to submit their
published conference article(s) and a summary document explaining the
enhancements made in the journal version.
The submission website for this journal is located at
https://www.editorialmanager.com/osnem/default.aspx.
Please select "VSI:Disinformation" when you reach the "Article Type"
step in the submission process. To ensure that all manuscripts are
correctly identified, for consideration by the special issue, the
authors should indicate in the cover letter that the manuscript has been
submitted for the special issue on Disinformation, Hoaxes and Propaganda
within Online Social Networks and Media.
For further information, please contact the guest editors at
yelena.mej...@gmail.com
marinella.petroc...@iit.cnr.it
c.scar...@sheffield.ac.uk
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Marinella Petrocchi
Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT)
National Research Council (CNR)
Pisa (Italy)
Mobile: +39 348 8260773
Skype: m_arinell_a
Web: http://www.iit.cnr.it/staff/marinella.petrocchi
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