[Geo4All] [Call for abstracts] RGS-IBG Geographies of misinformation • 18 March

Tue Mar 8 04:04:01 PST 2022

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All the best, Stef – Secretary of the RGS GIScience RG.

TL;DR – abstract submission deadline: 18 March 2022

As part of the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rgs.org%2Fresearch%2Fannual-international-conference%2Fcall%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353547928134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=hkgzXidhzk42BYjT5d5bGQFU3CcwrP58pwEYqNe2SBg%3D&reserved=0>, we encourage you to submit an abstract to our session:

“Geographies of misinformation”

Call URL: https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-geographies-of-misinformation<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeoinfo.science%2Frgs-2022-geographies-of-misinformation&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353547928134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=dhvI3%2BN4RHTbf0wpkj69iS%2B8osLCWXykwGtJfeGfoMU%3D&reserved=0>

Organizers:
Dr Andrea Ballatore<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faballatore.space%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353547928134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=OidMt%2BBhj%2FJBnERyQ8yNr6JrjrZ7AqZhukboI4vGK9o%3D&reserved=0>, King’s College London
Dr Monica Stephens<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeog.space%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353547928134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=%2BxYRvFUSU8LI1cTBA3TvfQIYN696AuwHgCZaE7TdhZ0%3D&reserved=0>, Durham University
Dr Stefano De Sabbata<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsdesabbata.github.io%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353547928134%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Zj8fQx2Blv6ycf%2B3z3j%2FnQxfs%2Finn6utlGvIRKdFDKE%3D&reserved=0>, University of Leicester

This session aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum to explore the intersections and tensions between online misinformation and the places from which it originates and that it influences. Participants will be encouraged to set a collaborative research agenda, shaping ideas for special issues, grant proposals, and further research initiatives.

In a world linked by fast-paced networked media, misinformation proliferates across platforms, social strata, and regions, influencing opinions and attitudes on migration, climate change, vaccinations, wars, political elections, and referenda, as observable in the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent invasion of Ukraine. In recent years, this "infodemic" has attracted researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, media studies, and data science, studying facets of political propaganda, conspiracy theories, and "fake news" produced by a variety of actors for profit or political gain.

To ground this phenomenon geographically, questions include but are not limited to: Where is misinformation produced and consumed? What is the regional variation in misinformation in terms of topics and actors involved? What is the spatial structure of misinformation flows? What locations are misinformation hubs and diffusion centres? What misinformation tends to concern proximal or distal topics and places? What are the differential patterns in misinformation in the Global North and South?

Adopting an inclusive definition of misinformation, we welcome proposals from geographic data science, human geography, digital geography, political science, information science, computer science, behavioural psychology, and cognate fields. Given our commitment to mixed methods, we hope to see a variety of approaches across the quantitative and qualitative spectrum to uncover the uncharted spatialities of online misinformation.

Instructions for submission at: https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-geographies-of-misinformation<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeoinfo.science%2Frgs-2022-geographies-of-misinformation&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353548084328%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=7ACljGoXBysuYMNme3RHlhfrxKI4DtoRY4cawveP9ec%3D&reserved=0>
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The Geographic Information Science Research Group<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeoinfo.science%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353548084328%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=h7I9AxTtOIy1nRCJOvPaGljQyqSSNfQrd8hInVPuT0o%3D&reserved=0> (GIScRG) of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rgs.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cs.desabbata%40leicester.ac.uk%7Cfbb028cf45f542aad37e08da00f5f06d%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637823353548084328%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=og%2Fxs51eThwUdCzAz6gxPoY8lHhRI1NYEqBZwFAyQo0%3D&reserved=0> is pleased to sponsor paper presentation sessions on the following topics that focus on geographic information science and tools, cartography, spatial analysis, critical GIS and related disciplines:

https://geoinfo.science/2022/02/17/rgs-annual-international-conference-sponsored-sessions-aic-2022/
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