Call for Papers *Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing*Workshop @ ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social MediaJune 5th – 8th 2023, Limassol, Cyprus https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/ ------------------------------ *Scope and topics*
In recent years, *people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions*, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole.
From this perspective, it becomes necessary to *study and propose technological solutions* to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being.
To this end, it is essential to promote *research of an interdisciplinary nature*, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can *address the problem of health misinformation* from different points of view by combining their expertise.
The* topics of interest* of the TrueHealth 2023 Workshop at ICWSM include, but are not limited to:
- Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI); - Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access; - Debunking health misinformation; - Fake news/rumors and healthcare; - Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection; - Health misinformation detection; - Health literacy and information genuineness; - Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI); - Misinformation and public opinion on health; - Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health; - Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation; - Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI).
------------------------------ *Submission Instructions*
Instructions can be found on the official ICWSM website: https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html ------------------------------ *Important Dates*
- *Workshop Papers Submissions*: March 27, 2023 - *Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification*: April 10, 2023 - *Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due*: May 6, 2023 - *ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day*: June 5, 2023
------------------------------ *Organizers*
- *Gabriella Pasi* https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/gabriella-pasi/ (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy - *Rishabh Upadhyay https://en.unimib.it/rishabh-gyanendra-upadhyay* (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy - *Marco Viviani https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/* (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
------------------------------ *Program Committee*
- *Sanda Harabagiu* https://personal.utdallas.edu/~sanda/, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA - *Liadh Kelly https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-science-engineering/our-people/liadh-kelly*, Maynooth University, Ireland - *Dongwon Lee https://ist.psu.edu/directory/dul13*, Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University, USA - *Yelena Mejova https://www.isi.it/en/people/yelena-mejova,* ISI Foundation, Italy - *Michael Sirivianos* https://netsysci.cut.ac.cy/michael.sirivianos/, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus - *Angelo Spognardi https://angelospognardi.site.uniroma1.it/*, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - *Bei Yu https://ischool.syr.edu/bei-yu/*, Syracuse University, USA - *Arkaitz Zubiaga http://www.zubiaga.org/*, Queen Mary University of London, UK - Other members are going to be added in the coming days
--- Rishabh Upadhyay, IKR3 Lab, UNIMIB, Milan, Italy