Call for Participation

In recent times, research on online extremism has increased substantially; however, there are several under-explored research topics that are crucial for extracting practical and actionable insights from the scholarly research. This workshop builds on the literature discussing following challenges in extremism studies that we identified based on the prior literature and the organizers’ research experiences: 1) Identifying and Validating Data for Research, 2) Incorporating Cultural Context in Extremism Research, 3) Establishing Norms for Platform Governance Policies for Extremism, 4) Establishing Extremism Research Ethics 5) Balancing Focus on the Victims and Perpetrators of Online Extremism 6) Facilitating Recovery from Online Extremism.

Submissions

In this workshop, we aim to reach beyond the concepts of online incivility, toxicity, hate speech, harassment, or online harm and also consider ideologically driven extremism based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, caste, and political affiliation. As such, we invite ideas researching both, online harms, hate speech, and harassment relevant to ideological extremism and the broader level online ecosystem of ideological extremism. Keeping in mind the socio-political complexity of ideological extremism, this workshop focuses on bringing together researchers from diverse countries and disciplines such as computational social science, HCI, criminology, social psychology, epidemiology, and political science to facilitate further dialogue on six main themes of the workshop.

Download the complete workshop proposal here.


Format

Interested participants can submit 2-6 page position paper (to be an attendee and get your paper published on the workshop website) or a 300-word abstract (to be an attendee) describing their perspectives on the themes of the workshop. The position paper should be able to identify at least one or more themes detailed in the workshop proposal. The papers should be in the Extended Abstract format provided in the SIGCHI Latex or SIGCHI Word template. Position papers must be submitted in PDF format via this google form. Please contact phadke@uw.edu for submission-related questions.


Workshop Attendance

CWCW 2021 will be held virtually so the workshop will be held on zoom for one day prior to the main conference. The tentative workshop schedule and activities are outlined here. The exact workshop date will be announced soon. Please check the main conference website for more details.


Submission Deadlines and Notifications

  • 2nd August - 20th September 2021: Accepting proposal submissions

  • 17th - 22th September 2021: Acceptance notification

  • October 23: Workshop

Workshop Goals:

(1) Facilitate networking, connections, and community identity of researchers from multiple disciplines such as social psychology, computer science, criminology, epidemiology, social justice studying online extremism.

(2) Discuss and propose ideas relevant to the five themes of the workshop.

(3) Encourage future interdisciplinary collaborations on the ideas generated during the workshop