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Title: Information Ecosystem Threats in Minoritized Communities: Challenges, Open Problems and Research Directions
Journalists, fact-checkers, academics, and community media are overwhelmed in their attempts to support communities suffering from gender-, race- and ethnicity-targeted information ecosystem threats, including but not limited to misinformation, hate speech, weaponized controversy and online-to-offline harassment. Yet, for a plethora of reasons, minoritized groups are underserved by current approaches to combat such threats. In this panel, we will present and discuss the challenges and open problems facing such communities and the researchers hoping to serve them. We will also discuss the current state-of-the-art as well as the most promising future directions, both within IR specifically, across Computer Science more broadly, as well as that requiring transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations. The panel will attract both IR practitioners and researchers and include at least one panelist outside of IR, with unique expertise in this space.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2147305
PAR ID:
10438273
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
SIGIR '22: Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Page Range / eLocation ID:
3384 to 3385
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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