<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(118,118,118);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:13.5pt"> </span><br></div><h3 style="margin:0in;break-after:avoid;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(31,55,99);font-weight:normal;line-height:18pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(118,118,118)">Registration for the </span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(118,118,118)"><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/conference.html" target="_blank"><b>2021 IDeaS Conference</b></a><b> is Now Open!</b><u></u><u></u></span></h3><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.3pt">Conference Dates: July 12-13, 2021</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.3pt"><br><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.3pt">Conference Webpage: <a href="https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/conference.html" target="_blank">https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/events/conference.html</a> (frequent updates between now and the conference dates)<br><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.3pt">Registration link:  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://www.regpack.com/reg/templates/build/?g_id=100907167" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(187,0,0)">https://www.regpack.com/reg/templates/build/?g_id=100907167</span></a><br>IDeaS uses Regpack.com for event registration. If you have any questions, please e-mail <a href="mailto:centerforideas@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(187,0,0)">centerforideas@andrew.cmu.edu</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.25pt"><br></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.25pt">Submission Deadline: June 1, 2021</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.25pt"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Submission link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ideas" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ideas</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);letter-spacing:0.3pt">CALL FOR PAPERS: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(118,118,118);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.3pt">ANNUAL IDEAS CONFERENCE: DISINFORMATION, HATE SPEECH, AND EXTREMISM ONLINE</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">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?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">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.  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">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.  <u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Short papers, 4-6 pages, in the format listed on the webpage should be submitted <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ideas" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(187,0,0)">via Easychair</span></a> by <b><span style="letter-spacing:0.3pt">June 1, 2021</span></b>. Technology demos should be proposed by submitting a 1-2 page description of the technology.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2021ideas" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(187,0,0)">Submit Proposal Here</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;line-height:19.8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Proposals for posters open to all graduate students associated with the Knight Research Network.<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">More about the Center for IDeaS</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The Center for Informed Democracy & Social-cybersecurity (<a href="https://www.cmu.edu/ideas-social-cybersecurity/" target="_blank">IDeaS</a>) was founded at Carnegie Mellon University in 2019 with funding from the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://knightfoundation.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(187,0,0)">Knight Foundation</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">. 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 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/IDeaSCMU" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(187,0,0)">Facebook</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://twitter.com/IDeaSCMU" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(187,0,0)">Twitter</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> and </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-ideas/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(187,0,0)">LinkedIn</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)"> to be informed of seminars, conferences, and institutes hosted by the Center for IDeaS. </span></p></div><div></div></div>