[agents] [1st CFP][ICWSM 2023] TrueHealth 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing

[Marco Viviani]

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/
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*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).

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*Submission Instructions*

Instructions can be found on the official ICWSM website:
https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html
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*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

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*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

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*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


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*Marco Viviani* (Associate Professor)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo)
Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval, and Reasoning (IKR3)
Lab
Edificio U14 - ABACUS, Viale Sarca, 336 - 20126 Milan (Italy)
e-mail: marco.viviani at unimib.it
URL: https://ikr3.disco.unimib.it/people/marco-viviani/

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