Warsaw, 18 – 19 May 2023
Call for Papers
The widespread diffusion and rapid development of digital information technologies, social media, citizen journalism, as well as smart technologies that control surrounding devices or entire industries, bring with them not only opportunities for faster flow and better use of information but also dangers of cyber-terrorism, disinformation, and all aspects of wars waged in cyberspace.
Reflection on disinformation phenomena, as well as the theoretical basis for countering them, belong to the research fields of various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences: social communication and media sciences (information studies, media studies), security sciences, political science, but also philosophy or sociology.
We would like the planned conference to become a field for the exchange of ideas and reflections of representatives of various disciplines on the proposed topic so that we can jointly propose a set of tools to combat fake news or develop a substructure of principles to combat disinformation.
For many years, our conferences have served to exchange the experience of researchers from various scientific disciplines, dealing with the problems of developing modern information technologies and their applications in information services in various fields of academic research and practical activities. We hope that this time, too, this tradition will be fulfilled.
Conference themes
The leading theme of the conference will be information wars. The proposed theme combines all current major contemporary social problems, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, and the climate catastrophe.
The scope of the conference covers a wide range of theoretical and practical aspects of modern tools and methods used for information warfare. Planned discussions will include the following topics:
- Information architecture and information security
- Information architecture as a tool against disinformation
- UX research and information wars
- Information bubbles
- Cyberterrorism
- Dark patterns and news service design
- Citizen journalism
- Fact-checking
- Information competence of users
- Media manipulation
- Modern information infrastructure, its security and attacks on it
- New communication technologies
- Information quality assessment
- Social information networks
- Wars in cyberspace
- Information wars
- The phenomenon of fake news
Applications for conference participation
Applications for the conference will be accepted until April 30, 2023, by email to infowars2023@gmail.com. Registration of the application is subject to payment of the conference fee.
Conference fee
Please pay the conference fee to the account of the Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies of the University of Warsaw (PL-00-310 Warsaw; 2/4 Bednarska Street).
06 1160 2202 0000 0003 0134 7686
Bank name: Bank Millenium SA
SWIFT: BIGBPLPW
IBAN: PL06 1160 2202 0000 0003 0134 7686
Conference fee: 150 Euro (or 175 Euro including the banquet fee) (last day for registration and rates is 30 April 2023)
In the title of the transfer, please write "Information Science" and the name of the participant.
As part of the conference fee, the participant, in addition to participation in the conference, is provided:
- conference materials
- catering in 2 coffee breaks (first and second day of the conference)
- lunch on the first and second day of the conference
- participation in the gala dinner on the first day of the conference (for those interested)
- a peer-reviewed conference proceedings book.
Information for paper and poster authors
- The title of the paper or poster along with an abstract (300 to 600 words) should be submitted by email to infowars2023@gmail.com by January 15, 2023.
- Notification on acceptance of a paper or poster will be sent to authors by February 15, 2023.
- The full text of the paper or poster should be submitted by email by May 10, 2023. Selected texts will be included in a peer-reviewed conference proceedings book. Detailed guidelines for authors will be provided with notification on acceptance of the proposed paper.
Expected presentation time: 20 minutes.
More information in the attached files and on the website https://infowars.wdib.uw.edu.pl/