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Author Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (4th : 2022 : Boise, Idaho)

Title Disinformation in open online media : 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium, MISDOOM 2022, Boise, ID, USA, October 11-12, 2022, proceedings / Francesca Spezzano, Adriana Amaral, Davide Ceolin, Lisa Fazio, Edoardo Serra (eds.)
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 155 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series Lecture notes in computer science ; 13545
Lecture notes in computer science ; 13545.
Contents Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- Keynote Talks -- Hacking Online Virality -- From the Infodemic to the Information War: Disinformation Narrative Evolution, Lessons Learned, and Challenges Ahead -- The Propagandists' Playbook: How Search Engines are Manipulated to Threaten Democracy -- The Role of Display Advertising in the Disinformation Ecosystem -- Contents -- User Perception Based Trust Model of Online Sources: A Case Study of Misinformation on COVID-19 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Our Approach: User Perception-Based Trust Model for Websites -- 3.1 Trust Factors
3.2 Quasi-experiment Design -- 4 Experimentation and Results -- 5 Proposed Trust Model -- 5.1 Trust Score Model -- 6 Validation and Testing -- 7 Limitations and Future Work -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Using Artificial Neural Networks to Identify COVID-19 Misinformation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature Review -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Dataset -- 3.2 Preprocessing and Merging Datasets -- 3.3 Experiments and Result -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion and Future Work -- References -- Tracing Political Positioning of Dutch Newspapers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work
2.1 Dimensionality of Political Discourse -- 2.2 Source Identification -- 2.3 Text Generation -- 3 Data -- 3.1 Data Collection -- 3.2 Results -- 4 Coverage Bias -- 4.1 Log Normalised Mention Frequency -- 4.2 Relative Normalised Mention Frequency -- 4.3 Experiments and Results -- 5 General and Source Specific Political Discourse -- 5.1 Topic Modelling -- 5.2 Experiments and Results -- 5.3 Word Embeddings -- 5.4 Experiments and Results -- 6 Discriminating Newspapers by Article Texts -- 6.1 Experiments and Results -- 7 Article Generation -- 7.1 Experiments and Results -- 8 Discussion
9 Research Limitations and Future Work -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- Digital Information Seeking and Sharing Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Pakistan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Relevant Literature -- 3 Methodology -- 3.1 Pseudo-medicinal Treatments -- 4 Analysis 1: Search Trends During COVID-19 Pandemic -- 4.1 Dataset -- 4.2 Search Interest Regarding Treatment and Prevention of COVID-19 -- 5 Analysis 2: WhatsApp Public Group Data -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Investigating the Validity of Botometer-Based Social Bot Studies -- 1 Introduction
2 Theoretical and Methodological Limitations of Botometer-Based Social Bot Detection -- 3 Evaluating Botometer on Samples of Known Humans -- 4 Evaluating the Performance of Botometer in Real-World Scenarios -- 4.1 Are Social Bots Following the Twitter Accounts of German Political Parties? -- 4.2 Are Social Bots Attempting to Spread Vaccine-Critical Information? -- 5 Related Work -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- New Automation for Social Bots: From Trivial Behavior to AI-Powered Communication -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background and Context of Computer-Mediated Communication -- 3 Three Perspectives
Summary This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, MISDOOM 2022, held in October 2022. The 7 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 full/short paper submissions. The papers focus on health and climate change misinformation, social bots and comment moderation, information seeking and diffusion, misinformation detection, and user perception-based trust models
Notes Selected conference papers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 14, 2022)
Subject Social media -- Congresses
Digital media -- Congresses
Misinformation -- Congresses
Common fallacies
Digital media
Social media
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Spezzano, Francesca, editor.
Amaral, Adriana, editor.
Ceolin, Davide, editor
Fazio, Lisa, editor
Serra, Edoardo, editor
ISBN 9783031182532
3031182537
9788303118257
8303118250
Other Titles MISDOOM 2022