[AISWorld] Fake and Deception CFP THCI

[Dov Te'Eni]

AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction

Special Issue on  Fake News and Deception

Due Date: January 31, 2021

With the unprecedented intensity of fake news on the Internet, and social media in particular, we wish to examine the behavioral aspects of fake news and deception with a dedicated special issue in the Transactions of HCI. 
The special issue (SI) examines the cycle of interactions between IT and users in which fake news and deception are generated and disseminated through online channels. Specifically, recipients of false information may, knowingly or unknowingly, process, react, and forward the false information, and at the same time, users as well as platforms attempt to detect, moderate, and react to false information and inauthentic activity according to norms, regulations, and personal judgements. The cycle continues when the dire effects of false information become public and draw further remedies, such as changes to trust mechanisms, moderation policies and regulations, computational affordances and algorithms to help detect and react but, unfortunately, also harden manipulators¡¯ resolve at identifying novel ways to exploit technology loopholes and propagate false information. The cyclical effects lead to further confusion and lower trust, to possibly yet more false information on the Internet, and to probably more effects on human behavior and society that are yet to be determined. 

While recent research has addressed these different steps from several perspectives, our SI seeks a behavioral (possibly also organizational and social) perspective, not a purely technological perspective. We therefore call for papers addressing compelling issues around the fake news and deception phenomena related to the behavior of online users and information consumers on the Internet. We seek a wide range of research in topics, theory, perspectives, and levels of analysis affected. We welcome a diversity of methods: qualitative, quantitative, experimental, archival, and design science. We encourage pure HCI-related IS research as well as inter-disciplinary research with partners from journalism, communication, psychology, sociology, political science, and other disciplines.

Topics and themes for the SI include, but are not limited to:
¡ñ	Fake news, social bots, misinformation, and disinformation related effects on online user behavior
¡ñ	User attitudes and behaviors about fake news and deception
¡ñ	Online misinformation diffusion: its dynamics and its impacts on public attitudes, polarization, and trust
¡ñ	Online misbehavior (scams, deception, and click-bait) and its relation to misinformation
¡ñ	Impacts of fake news and deception on users, groups, companies, and/or societies
¡ñ	User perceptions of credibility and reputation of news sources, social data, and crowdsourced data
¡ñ	User perceptions of fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in fake news or misinformation detection
¡ñ	Platform governance as it affects user behavior
¡ñ	Design of algorithms, social bots, curation systems, recommendation systems from a behavioral perspective
¡ñ	Technical, behavioral, economic, and regulatory/policy solutions to affect user behavior
¡ñ	Interface design for misinformation monitoring, detection, and mitigation with real-time, and streaming 
¡ñ	Innovative crowdsourcing and collaborative approaches to counter fake news and deception
¡ñ	Online communities: dynamics of spread and moderation of conspiratorial information and fake news
¡ñ	Fake reviewers (and consumer reviews) and effect on decision making and judgment
¡ñ	Organized disinformation operations online: tactics, impacts, prevention and mitigation
¡ñ	Methodological innovations for the study of fake news and online deception from an HCI perspective
¡ñ	New theories on human-computer interaction around fake news and deception

Timeline and Submission

Authors are welcome to email an abstract or extended abstract (up to two pages) to the Guest Editors prior to submission if they have questions about their paper¡¯s fit with the special section or if they are concerned with meeting the deadlines.  Papers will be published online in AIS THCI on a rolling basis, as they become accepted after the developmental peer review process. An editorial will frame, package and promote the collection of papers as the special issue.  Reviewing will be double-blind. You are asked to submit a blinded paper without identifying author information and a non-blind cover page with author information, acknowledgements, and an indication that the paper is intended for the Special Issue on Fake News and Deception.

Deadline for full paper submission: 31 January 2021
Notification to authors: no later than 30 April 2021
Latest resubmission: 31 July 2021

If authors submit their full papers earlier than January 2021, their papers will be sent out for peer review at that time, and accordingly, authors can receive an earlier notification.

The guest editors welcome inquiries and proposals ¨C please don¡¯t hesitate to contact us!
Shuk Ying (Susanna) Ho:  susanna.ho at anu.edu.au
Jean-Gr¨¦goire Bernard: jean-gregoire.bernard at vuw.ac.nz  
Dov Te¡¯eni: teeni at tau.ac.il