The 2st Workshop on DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop Call for Papers

The 2st Workshop on DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop

 

The workshop will be conducted in a hybrid format to ensure maximum
participation, accommodating attendees both online and in person.

Submission deadline: July 11 2025 AOE

Workshop site: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/

 Co-located with ACMMM 2025

https://acmmm2025.org/

Dublin, Ireland, 27-31 October 2024

 Important Dates

Submission deadline: extended to July 11, 2025

Notification of acceptance: August 01, 2025

Camera-ready papers due: August 11, 2025

Workshop date: October 27/28, 2025

Workshop Description

With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online
content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also
gets spread. There are different harmful content available on
different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful
content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the
user’s aspect, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied
individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been
done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to
harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach
the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news
media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles,
comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study the harmful
content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and
topics.

We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so
that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation,
disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some
novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis
with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in
diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or
elections in 2025.

We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for
researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share latest
developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated
with harmful contents spread across the Web. We expect that the
workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance
the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development
of safer internet. In addition to attracting high quality research
contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to
mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a
community.

Submissions Topics

*    Studying different types of harmful content

*    Computational fact-checking & Misinformation Detection

*    Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content

*    Harassment, Bullying, and Hate Speech Detection

*    Explainable AI for Harmful Content Analysis

*    Multimodal and Multilingual Harmful Content Detection such as fake news, spam, and troll detection.

*    Deepfake and Synthetic Media

*    Ethical & Societal Implications of AI in Content Moderation

*    Both Qualitative and Quantitative study on harmful content

*    Psychological effects of harmful content like mental health

* Approaches for data collection or data annotation using multimodal
large models on harmful content

*    User study on the effects of harmful content on human beings

 Submissions

- Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/2025/#call

- Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=acmmm.org/ACMMM/2025/Workshop/DHOW

  Workshop organizers

*    Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany)

*    Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)

*    Gautam Kishore Shahi  (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

*    Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom )

*    Durgesh Nandini (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

 

DHOW 2025