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<div style="margin: 0px">We hope this email finds you well. We also hope that everyone is safe and healthy. Please consider submitting your valuable work to DEVIANCE 2020 workshop. Below is the CFP along with contact information (in case needed).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><b>Workshop Link</b>:<span> </span><a href="https://cosmos.ualr.edu/workshops/deviance/2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">https://cosmos.ualr.edu/workshops/deviance/2020/</a><span> </span> </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">=================== DEVIANCE 2020 | Call for Papers ===================</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">DEVIANCE 2020, Workshop on Deviant Activities on Social Media</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">In conjunction with 2020 IEEE Conference on BigData (IEEE BigData 2020)</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Event Schedule: December 10-13, 2020 @ Atlanta, GA, USA (due to COVID-19 the workshop will be held virtually).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Workshop page:<span> </span><a href="https://cosmos.ualr.edu/workshops/deviance/2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">https://cosmos.ualr.edu/workshops/deviance/2020/</a> </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Submission page:<span> </span><a href="https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/bigdata20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S41&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2020/bigdata20/scripts/ws_submit.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/bigdata20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S41&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2020/bigdata20/scripts/ws_submit.php</a> </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">DEVIANCE 2020:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">With the proliferation of smart devices, mobile applications, and social network platforms, the social side effects of these technologies have become more profound, especially in social and political disintegration. Several journalistic
and academic investigations have reported that modern communication platforms such as social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube, and the “deep web” channels) are strategically used to coordinate cyber propaganda campaigns. Several researchers have
studied these campaigns and identified various tactics, techniques, and procedures used by various online deviant groups, e.g., online propagandists’ groups or terrorist groups sympathizers. Various social media platforms utilized the research findings to
detect and curb some of these campaigns, however, the techniques that are used evolve and adapt to go undetected. This is a growing problem. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">In this workshop, our aim is to have a scientific discussion among the experts who study deviant activities on social media, including but not limited to, detection of deviant/disruptive behaviors on social media; misinformation detection,
identification, and dissemination; case studies of misinformation; etc. This includes the following topics:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">- Misinformation detection</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Misinformation dissemination strategies</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Cross-platform dissemination</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Hashtag Latching</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Propaganda dissemination</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Deviant behaviors on social media platforms</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Coordination strategies and detection</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Cyber Flash Mobs </div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Spamming</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Algorithmic Manipulation such as Recommendation Manipulation</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Inorganic behaviors </div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Bots behaviors, evolution, and detection</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Online Trolls detection and strategies, </div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Hate Speech (Toxic or polarizing or disruptive content)</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">- Narratives in misinformation campaigns</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">**In the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the upcoming the US. elections, we also solicit papers focused on disinformation and misinformation being disseminated related to these events.**</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Tentative Dates:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Submission due: August 28, 2020</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Notification to authors: October 25, 2020</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Camera ready due: November 8, 2020</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Submission Info:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length of 10 pages (using the IEEE two-column template). Submissions should be in PDF and include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es) and abstract on the
first page. Workshop papers can be submitted through the submission portal.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Papers should be formatted according to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see links to "formatting instructions" below). </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Formatting Instructions:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">8.5" x 11" (DOC, PDF) </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">All papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Workshop Program Chairs:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Muhammad Nihal Hussain, Ph.D.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Postdoc Researcher, COSMOS research lab at University of Arkansas at Little Rock</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"><a href="mailto:mnhussain@ualr.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">mnhussain@ualr.edu</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Kiran Kumar Bandeli, Ph.D.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Data Scientist, Walmart Inc.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"><a href="mailto:KiranKumar.Bandeli@walmart.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">KiranKumar.Bandeli@walmart.com</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Samer Al-khateeb, Ph.D.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Assistant Professor, Creighton University</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"><a href="mailto:SamerAl-Khateeb1@creighton.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">SamerAl-Khateeb1@creighton.edu</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Nitin Agarwal, Ph.D.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Distinguished Professor, COSMOS research lab at University of Arkansas at Little Rock</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"><a href="mailto:nxagarwal@ualr.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">nxagarwal@ualr.edu</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Web Chair:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Thomas Marcoux, </div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Ph.D. Student, COSMOS research lab at University of Arkansas at Little Rock</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"><a href="mailto:txmarcoux@ualr.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">txmarcoux@ualr.edu</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Very respectfully,</div>
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Informatics.<br>
Department of Computer Science, Design and Journalism. <br>
College of Arts and Sciences.<br>
Creighton University.<br>
Office: Hitchcock Communication Arts Building, Room 203A <br>
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Web:<span> </span><a href="http://sameral-khateeb.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px">sameral-khateeb.github.io</a></div>
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