Program
Program outline. Below is the online program for MISDOOM 2020, taking place October 26 and 27, 2020. It consists of 3 invited talks, 2 discussion sessions and 70 contributed talks/papers, of which 10 talks will be plenary, and 60 talks will take in parallel sessions.
Presenter, chair and topic session host instructions: Presenter information.
Interaction & networking. Apart from giving a talk, participants of MISDOOM meet for a discussion session in so-called topical groups in the morning before their presentation. See the movie about the symposium format.
Detailed program. See the assignment of accepted papers to sessions.
Time zone. All times are in CET (Central European Time)
Online Rooms. All sessions take place via the open-source Kaltura Live Room (newrow) platform. Enter the room by clicking the link. The room password can be found in the e-mails sent to all registered attendees.
Day 1 – Monday October 26, 2020
| 8:30 | 8:45 | P | Welcome & testing of technical setup |
| 8:45 | 9:00 | P | Symposium opening (Frank Takes & Suzan Verberne) |
| 9:00 | 10:00 | P | Invited talk: Edda Humprecht: Unequal framework conditions? Promises and limitations of comparative international research on mis- and disinformation (Chair: Max van Duijn) |
| 10:00 | 10:45 | A B C | Discussion session in “topical groups” (+ coffee break) Group A (speakers in session A1, A2 and plenary session P1) Group B (speakers in session B1, B2, and all interested other attendees) Group C (speakers in session C1, C2, and all interested other attendees) |
| 10:45 | 12:00 | A B C | Parallel session 1 (3 x 5 papers): A1 – Fake Science, Science Misinformation & Countermeasures B1 – State-based Misinformation, Disruption & Surveillance C1 – Malicious Actors and their Strategies |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | 14:15 | P | Plenary session P1 (5 papers): Challenges |
| 14:25 | 14:45 | Coffee break | |
| 14:45 | 16:00 | A B C | Parallel session 2 (3 x 5 papers): A2 – Automatic Detection of Fake News & Misinformation B2 – The Public – Susceptibility and Peer Influence C2 – Election Engineering & Political Misinformation |
Day 2 – Tuesday October 27, 2020
| 8:50 | 9:00 | P | Welcome & testing of technical setup |
| 9:00 | 10:00 | P | Invited talk: Susan Banducci: What Can Misinformation Tell Us about Media Systems? (Chair: Viktoria Spaiser) |
| 10:00 | 10:45 | A B C | Discussion session in “topical groups” (+ coffee break) Group A (speakers in session A3, A4 and plenary session P2) Group B (speakers in session B3, B4, and all interested other attendees) Group C (speakers in session C3, C4, and all interested other attendees) |
| 10:45 | 12:00 | A B C | Parallel session 3 (3 x 5 papers): A3 – Fundamental Concepts of Misinformation B3 – NLP and ML for Fake-News Identification C3 – Human-Based Solutions |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | 14:15 | P | Plenary session P2 (5 papers): Solutions |
| 14:25 | 14:45 | Coffee break | |
| 14:45 | 15:45 | P | Invited talk Coen van de Ven: Unravelling ‘New Conspiracism’ on Instagram (Chair: Alexander Pleijter) |
| 15:45 | 17:00 | A B C | Parallel session 4 (3 x 5 papers): A4 – News, Conspiracies & Filter Bubbles B4 – Spreading & Spill-Over Dynamics of Misinformation C4 – Solutions – Tools & Systems |
| 17:00 | 17:10 | P | Symposium closing (Frank Takes & Suzan Verberne) |