[CogSci] Center for IDeaS Conference Announcement and CFP

[Center for IDeaS]

*Registration for the **2021 IDeaS Conference*
<https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/conference.html>* is
Now Open!*

*Conference Dates: July 12-13, 2021*

Conference Webpage:
https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/conference.html (frequent
updates between now and the conference dates)

Registration link:
https://www.regpack.com/reg/templates/build/?g_id=100907167
IDeaS uses Regpack.com for event registration. If you have any questions,
please e-mail centerforideas at andrew.cmu.edu.


*Submission Deadline: June 1, 2021*
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ideas


*CALL FOR PAPERS: **ANNUAL IDEAS CONFERENCE: DISINFORMATION, HATE SPEECH,
AND EXTREMISM ONLINE*

Natural disasters, elections, climate changes, insurrections, pandemics,
and new technologies are rocking the world. People talk about events, both
these massive ones and much smaller ones, on line. Social media platforms,
search engines and websites have become the window through which these
events are viewed and interpreted.  Those on social media seek and shape
information, build and join communities, often with impacts in the physical
world. One consequence is an online breeding ground for growing and
disseminating disinformation, hate speech and extremism.  In this
conference we ask: How is this done?  Who is doing it? Why is it being
done? What are the social consequences? How can it be countered?

IDeaS will host a virtual conference on disinformation, hate speech, and
extremism online in July 2021. This conference aims to advance the science
of social-cybersecurity through research and applications in this area.

We invite papers that address questions related to disinformation, hate
speech and extremism online. We are particularly interested in papers that
touch on the role that disinformation, hate speech and extremism are
playing in events such as the vaccine roll out, presidential elections
around the world, civil conflict, and community resilience. Policy,
empirical, qualitative, data science and simulation papers are of
equal interest.

The virtual conference will include: invited panels, virtual posters, and
regular talks. There will also be the opportunity for those interested to
demo their technologies.

Short papers, 4-6 pages, in the format listed on the webpage should be
submitted via Easychair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ideas>
 by *June 1, 2021*. Technology demos should be proposed by submitting a 1-2
page description of the technology.

All papers will be reviewed. Selected papers will be nominated for an
extended version to be submitted to an edited volume on disinformation,
and/or to a special issue of the journal – Computational and Mathematical
Organization Theory.

Submit Proposal Here <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ideas>

Proposals for posters open to all graduate students associated with the
Knight Research Network.



*More about the Center for IDeaS*

The Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity (IDeaS
<https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/>) was founded at Carnegie
Mellon University in 2019 with funding from the Knight Foundation
<https://knightfoundation.org/>. Led by Co-directors Dr. Kathleen M. Carley
and Dr. David Danks, the goal of the Center for IDeaS is to enhance
social-cybersecurity to preserve and support an informed democratic
society. The use of social media to harm ranges from individuals using it
for cyber-bullying, to extremist groups recruiting members, to states using
it to encourage polarization and unrest. As more of our lives move online,
we are increasingly challenged by hate speech, disinformation campaigns and
extremism. IDeaS brings together a community of scholars, practitioners,
and policy-makers to develop new theories, applications, educational
practices, and policies to foster an informed democratic society in a
cybermediated environment. Follow us on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/IDeaSCMU>, Twitter <https://twitter.com/IDeaSCMU>
 and LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-ideas/> to be
informed of seminars, conferences, and institutes hosted by the Center for
IDeaS.
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