Esther Ledelle Mead
Postdoctoral fellow, COSMOS research center at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
elmead@ualr.eduWith 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 various deviant activities such as cyber propaganda campaigns. Several researchers have studied these deviant activities and identified various tactics, techniques, and procedures used by various online deviant groups, e.g., online propagandist groups,terrorist groups sympathizers, black-hat hacker groups, and internet trolls. Various social media platforms utilized the research findings to detect and curb some of these deviant activities. However, the techniques that are used by the aforementioned deviant groups evolve and adapt to go on undetected. This is a growing problem on social media that needs to be explored and solved.
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, but is not limited to, the following topics:
**In the light of recent elections worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic, and covid-related deviant behaviors such as anti-lockdown campaigns, vaccine hesitancy, etc., we also solicit papers focused on disinformation and misinformation being disseminated related to these events.**
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the IEEE BigData conference and the DEVIANCE 2021 Workshop will be held virtually. The workshop sessions will be conducted synchronously using real-time conferencing software. The authors of the workshop must present their papers according to the announced schedule. Participants can access the conference virtual platform by visiting https://underline.io/events/222/sessions?eventSessionId=9626.
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.
Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines.
All papers accepted for the workshop will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.
Selected presentations will be invited to submit extended studies to Springer’s Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) special issue on Deviant Behaviors on Social Media.
Time | Title | Presenter/Author |
9:00am-9:15am | Introduction to the Workshop | Workshop Chairs |
Track 1 | ||
9:15am - 9:40am | BigD402 - Am I Being Bullied on Social Media? An Ensemble Approach to Categorize Cyberbullying | Mohsinul Kabir |
9:40am - 10:05am | BigD396 - Hate or Non-hate: Translation based hate speech identification in Code-Mixed Hinglish data set | Shankar Biradar |
10:05am - 10:30am | S06205 - An Implementation of Fake News Prevention by Blockchain and Entropy-based Incentive Mechanism | Chien-Chih Chen |
10:30am - 10:55am | S06204 - Identifying the Popularity and Persuasiveness of Right- and Left-Leaning Group Videos on Social Media | Lin Ai/Anika Kathuria |
10:55am - 11:20am | S06207 - MetaHate: A Meta-Model for Hate Speech Detection | Daniel G. Kyrollos |
11:20am - 12:30pm | Lunch Break | |
Track 2 | ||
12:30pm - 12:55pm | S06210 - If it retweets like a troll, follows like a troll and looks like a troll; is it a troll?: Targeting the 2021 Ecuadorian Presidential Elections Trolls | Saríah López-Fierro |
12:55pm - 1:20pm | S06201 - Beyond a binary of (non)racist tweets: A four-dimensional categorical detection and analysis of racist and xenophobic opinions on Twitter in early Covid-19 | Deval Mehta |
1:20pm - 2:25pm | Keynote | Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd |
2:25pm - 2:40pm | Short Break | |
Track 2 (continued) | ||
2:40pm - 3:05pm | S06206 - Identifying Social Media Content Supporting Proud Boys | Swapna Gokhale |
3:05pm - 3:30pm | S06208 - Internet Trolls against Russian Opposition: A Case Study Analysis of Twitter Disinformation Campaigns against Alexei Navalny | Iuliia Alieva |
3:30pm - 3:45pm | Closing Remarks | |
*All Times in United States EST (to keep it consistent with main conference time). |
Postdoctoral fellow, COSMOS research center at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
elmead@ualr.eduWeb Chair - Computer and Information Science PhD candidate, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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