Dear All, I'm sharing this again since the deadline for abstracts is tomorrow. Best, Chinmayi ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chinmayi Arun <chinmayiarun@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 10:42 AM Subject: Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference - Yale Law School, April '24 To: <bkc-announce@eon.law.harvard.edu>, Discussion list for GigaNet Members <GIGANET-MEMBERS@listserv.syr.edu>, <netsociety@lists.networkofcenters.net> (apologies for cross-posting) Dear All, We're inviting abstracts for an international conference on Propaganda and Emerging Technologies that we're hosting at Yale Law School next Spring. Details are below. My wonderful colleague ( salwa.hoque@yale.edu ) will be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Best, Chinmayi *April 5th and 6th, 2024, Yale Law School* *Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference* We invite abstracts for ‘Propaganda and Emerging Technologies,’ a conference hosted by the *Information Society Project <https://law.yale.edu/isp>*, and to be held at Yale Law School on April 5th and 6th, 2024. Problems of propaganda, hate speech, misinformation, manipulation, and electoral influence have persisted for years. These problems will likely increase as generative AI and extended reality technologies become more sophisticated and accessible. Because the problems are global as well as domestic, the solutions require a global as well as a domestic perspective. This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to explore how generative AI, extended reality, and other emerging technologies create new problems for the public sphere, and the best ways to deal with these problems. The goal of the conference is to help lawyers, policy makers and social media companies anticipate and plan for a new wave of propaganda in the age of artificial intelligence. We invite abstracts from legal scholars and experts, as well as scholars from other disciplines – including history, public health, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, media studies, information science, computer science, statistics, and cultural studies – that investigate questions of propaganda: historic, contemporary and emerging. We welcome papers that explore (but are not limited to) how new technologies like AI and extended reality might undermine or increase distrust in knowledge-producing and credentialing institutions, including science, journalism, and academia, and how best to counteract these effects. We also seek work that discusses how new technologies will produce new forms and new kinds of propaganda. *Please submit your 500 words abstract in this **submission form <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FrHc1v7yarSNF2LxK9&data=05%7C01%7Cchinmayi.arun%40yale.edu%7C980824b72eab40e1532b08dbc1e68b6e%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638316968165095740%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a2jp25Axs%2FviK1jqpq3%2BLgQORbwDQliPBvl0C0lX67Q%3D&reserved=0>*. Authors whose papers are accepted will be expected to provide full paper drafts by March 1st prior to the conference, which will be circulated to all conference participants. Please send your questions to *Salwa Hoque <salwa.hoque@yale.edu?subject=Propganda%20and%20Emerging%20Technologies%20-%20CfP%20-%20Inquiry>* . *Deadline: Our submissions portal will close on November 10th*. We request people who will require an invitation letter to apply for a U.S. visa, to apply by October 30th. Yale-ISP is unable to assist with visa procedures for international presenters; all presenters are requested to obtain the necessary visa(s) and make their own travel arrangements. *Click here for additional information on this Call for Papers and Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference.* <https://law.yale.edu/isp/initiatives/majority-world-initiative>