Call for Papers and Posters
Submit your paper proposal
Paper submission deadline: August 1
We’re pleased to invite paper proposals that explore the interface between data and computer science and journalism, covering the entire process and practice of journalism in context, including:
- Computation and reporting, analysis, and sensemaking
- Computation and storytelling
- Computation and publishing
- Computation and distribution, including social media
- Computation and audience engagement with news
We encourage submissions from a wide variety of academic and professional perspectives and modes of practice, including:
- Case studies of stories, visualizations, or other interactive experiences exemplary of outstanding journalism produced about or with data and algorithmic methods.
- Applications and platforms that support journalistic work and which enable new ways of finding, producing, curating, or disseminating stories and other news content.
- Research in network science, social science, and other areas which explores the larger context in which computational journalism must function, the impact of specific technologies or practices, or other questions of interest at the intersection of computation and journalism.
Topics
This year’s conference will include a major focus on “fake news,” misinformation, and fact-checking, given the attention these topics have received in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Beyond that topic area, we are trying to cast the widest possible net in mapping out the interplay between computation and journalism. Consider the following topic areas as inspiration, but please don’t be limited by them.
- Accuracy and Verification
- Algorithmic Accountability and Investigation
- Audience Studies
- Automated/Robot Journalism
- Behavioral Modeling and Profiling of News Readers
- Computation and Data Journalism Education
- Data and Computing in Different News Domains: Sports, Health, Business, Economy, Politics, Etc.
- Data Mining, News, and Social Media
- Data Visualization and Storytelling
- Editorial Support Systems
- Fact-Checking
- Journalism Ethics
- Media Bias and Diversity
- Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics
- News and Mobile Computing
- News Analytics, Metrics, Impact, and Propagation
- News Bots and Chatbots
- News User Experiences and Interactivity
- Open Data, Civic Data, and APIs
- Personalization and Recommendation
- Platform Algorithms and Distribution
- Prediction and Simulation in the News
- Rumor Detection and Tracking
- Sensor and Drone Journalism
- Source Finding (e.g., eyewitnesses, experts)
- Tools, Platforms, and Services to Support Journalistic Work
- Transparency, Trust, and Credibility
Publishing
Papers will be published as part of an online proceedings linked off this site but should be considered "non-archival" for the sake of journal submissions elsewhere. At the same time, we highly encourage unique and novel contributions with limited overlap to other related publications the author may have or intend to publish. You can view selected papers from C+J 2015 and C+J 2016 online.
Format
All submissions must be in PDF format, follow a standard set by the Association for Computing Machinery, and should not exceed five (5) pages, including references.
Submit your paper proposal
Paper submission deadline: August 1
Posters
Submit your poster proposal
Poster submission deadline: August 1
We will be accepting submissions for a Poster session that will occur the evening of October 13. Submitted papers not chosen for inclusion in the conference content may be invited to present as a Poster. Contributors wishing to present a Poster are invited to submit a 1-page Executive Summary in PDF format.
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