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Nowadays, misinformation spreads more rapidly and more broadly
than reliable information does, creating an “infodemic.” This has
a serious impact globally. Though the main originators may be
malicious entities exploiting social media, “fake news,” and
conspiracy theory generators, it is ourselves and our own network
of people that propagate misinformation and fake content simply by
sharing them often without assessing their validity.
How can we address this challenging problem facing society by
leveraging technology and information hygiene practices?
An upcoming special issue of IEEE CS IT Professional seeks to
present an overview of the problems and showcase recent
developments that address them and applications of IT to support
humans in the fight against misinformation. The magazine invites
articles that present recent advances, perspectives, and use
cases.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Information trustworthiness, trust, and reputation models
* Online misinformation diffusion models and diffusion prediction
and prevention
* Information hygiene practices and “social-media information”
literacy
* AI and machine-learning approaches to identify and filter
misinformation and prevent its propagation
* Detection of deepfakes – fake image, audio, or video
* Crowdsourcing approaches to fighting misinformation
* Impacts of misinformation, fake news, and deception
* Information provenance in social media and the Internet
* Digital nudging for information hygiene
* The role of regulatory policy in lieu of self-policing
* Examination of the economic – for-profit – models that
contribute to the info-demic
* “Best practices” for managing mis- and disinformation across the
globe
* Role of individuals, industry, regulatory bodies, and government
Details at:
https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/it/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-information-hygiene-and-the-fight-against-the-misinformation-info-demic
GUEST EDITORS:
George Loukas
Stephen J. Andriole
San Murugesan
All the best,
George
Professor George Loukas
Head of IoT and Security Centre (ISEC)
University of Greenwich
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http://www.georgeloukas.com<http://www.georgeloukas.com/>
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