CALL FOR PAPERS Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 April 2025 King’s College, University of Cambridge UK

Conference dates

23 Apr 2025 - 25 Apr 2025

Location

University of Cambridge UK, King's College

Description

CALL FOR PAPERS
Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 23-25 April 2025
King’s College, University of Cambridge UK

Papers from any discipline or research methods will be considered that relate to the Summit’s theme,

“Research on the efficacy of disinformation interventions”.

Disinformation occurs when actors intentionally disseminate misleading narratives through selected dissemination channels to exploit targeted vulnerable audiences. Examples might include information campaigns that support financial fraud, sexual predation, marginalizing targeted communities, or degrading human rights or democratic processes.

Interventions are methods, policies, materials, pedagogical frameworks, regulatory frameworks, professional practices, computer tools or algorithms, or social-psychological constructs that might for (non-exhaustive) example:

• expose, correct, or question disinformation narratives, actors or incentives
• prevent, expose, investigate, regulate, or prosecute harms arising from disinformation narratives
• disincentivize actors
• inform, educate, or otherwise support potential victims.

Illustrative (non-exhaustive) examples of current interventions across contexts include reporting standards, audits, regulatory enforcement, AI or crowd-sourced content flagging, fact-checking, prebunking, media literacy or critical thinking skills education, platform data access, and digital services legislation.

Paper submissions are encouraged to consider innovative interventions, broad settings, including those in less researched environments (e.g., the Global South), potential implications on fundamental rights (e.g., free speech), and how to garner public trust with the interventions.

Papers will be selected by the scientific committee to be invited for presentation at the events in Cambridge UK.

Priority will be given to papers that focus on disinformation (as opposed to misinformation, which is unintentional dissemination of misleading narratives), and to newer working papers that can both inform and be informed by the Summit’s interdisciplinary audience.

TO SUBMIT [25 August 2024 through 11:59 PM BST on 25 October 2024]:

1) Pay the £50 per paper submission fee.
2) Email your submission in .pdf format, including the names of the authors and affiliations.

Submissions will not be considered without the fee payment that helps offset administrative costs. Authors will be notified about their paper’s final selection status by the third week of December 2024.

For more information, reference the Summit website or email CFRA@jbs.cam.ac.uk.
[https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-disinformation-summit-2025/]

The 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit is hosted by: the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability, the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, and the University of Zurich Accounting Faculty Group.

The Scientific Committee includes:

Henry Ajder
Founder, Latent Space and Intellectual Forum
Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge Jesus College

Brad Badertscher
Deloitte Professor of Accountancy
University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business

Matthew Baum
Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications
Harvard Kennedy School

Beth Blankespoor
Professor of Accounting and Marguerite Reimers Endowed Faculty Fellow
University of Washington Foster School of Business

Emma Briant
Associate Professor of News and Political Communication
Monash University

Hui Chen
Professor of Accounting
University of Zurich Department of Business Administration

Yonca Ertimur
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty
Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Professor
University of Colorado Leeds School of Business

Stefan Feuerriegel
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Head of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Management
LMU Munich School of Management and Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Statistics

Todd Henderson
Michael J Marks Professor of Law
University of Chicago Law School

Alan Jagolinzer
Professor of Financial Accounting
Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Financial Reporting and Accountability
University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Jessica Montgomery
Executive Director, AI@Cam
Executive Director of the Cambridge Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery
University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology

Gina Neff
Executive Director, University of Cambridge Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

Safiya Noble
David O Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences
Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies
University of California at Los Angeles School of Education and Information Sciences

Daniel Ralph
Professor of Operations Research
Director of the Centre for Risk Studies
University of Cambridge Judge Business School

RA Rogers
Professor of New Media and Digital Culture
University of Amsterdam Faculty of Humanities

Yoel Roth
Vice President Trust and Safety
Match Group

Sunita Sah
Professor of Management Studies
Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business

Jake Shapiro
Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs

Tali Sharot
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
University College London Affective Brain Lab

Eric So
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management

Kate Starbird
Associate Professor of Human Centered Design and Engineering
University of Washington Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering

David Stillwell
Professor of Computational Social Science
Director of the Psychometrics Centre
University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Dan Taylor
Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting
Director of the Wharton Forensic Analytics Lab
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School

Sander van der Linden
Professor of Social Psychology in Society
University of Cambridge Department of Psychology

Regina Wittenberg Moerman
Accounting Circle Professor of Accounting
University of Southern California Marshall School of Business

The Summit will feature a keynote dinner discussion, regarding “Managing Threats,” featuring:

Nina Jankowicz, CEO, The American Sunlight Project and Former Executive Director for the Disinformation Governance Board, US Department of Homeland Security,

Yoel Roth, Vice President of Trust and Safety at Match Group, former Head of Trust and Safety at Twitter, Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Knight Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, and

Marianna Spring, Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent, BBC.