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Over the last decade, research scaled up tremendously in terms of publications, research data, authors, contributing institutions, projects, and funding opportunities. Nowadays scientific progress, with its estimated 150 million literature corpus, an annual increase rate of around 1.5 million publications, and as many (open) research data, promoted research to a multifaceted, high-frequency, global-scale phenomenon that can be approached computationally thanks to the vast amount of data available. It is therefore of paramount importance to study such an articulated, evolving system in order to understand its dynamics, patterns, internal equilibria, and interactions among the diverse scientific actors and entities. In particular, recent studies have proved that a holistic study of research as a complex phenomenon inserted in a delicate socioeconomic and geopolitical context, rather than as an isolated, context-unaware system, can provide a deeper understanding on how research and researchers influence and are influenced by the world outside academia. An analysis as such can provide answers to socio-economic questions, frame academic research on a geopolitical canvas, provide insight on the factors that generate successful science, allocate better the available resources, and therefore benefit from greater impact and efficacy. The main objective of the proposed workshop is to bring together researchers from both quantitative and qualitative studies, practitioners and policy-makers working in the field of academic research, scholarly communication, and knowledge production in order to reframe research in relation to the underlying socioeconomic and geopolitical canvas. In particular, we intend to encourage interdisciplinary analysis that considers research as a complex system that influences and is influenced by society, economics, culture, and politics.
| 09:00am | 09:15am | Workshop Opening |
| 09:15am | 10:00am | Keynote: Ludo Waltman |
| 10:00am | 10:15am | break |
| 10:15am | 10:30am | Samin Aref, Andrea Miranda-Gonzalez, Alexander Subbotin, Tom Theile, Emilio Zagheni and Jevin West. Modeling and analysis of migration and mobility among scholars using bibliometric data |
| 10:30am | 10:45am | Luc Boruta and Damien Vannson. Scholarly Technology and the Fallacy of Profitability |
| 10:45am | 11:00am | Tobias Weber. Metadata Inheritance: New Research Paper, New Data, New Metadata? |
| 11:00am | 11:15am | break |
| 11:15am | 11:30am | Thomas Klebel, Ilaria Fava and Tony Ross-Hellauer. Matthew Effects in Open Science and RRI |
| 11:30am | 11:45am | Jasmin Sadat and Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka. In Search of Outstanding Research Advances - Exploring Editorial Recommendations |
| 11:45am | 12:00pm | Angelika Tsivinskaya. Scientific production by universities |
| 12:00pm | 12:15pm | Marco Angelini and Cinzia Daraio. A Visual Analytics Environment for Developing Data Quality-aware Performance Models |
| 12:15pm | 12:30pm | Workshop Closing |
Migration research covers a wide area of disciplines and is typically performed using various data types such as census data, registries and surveys, collected by governmental institutions and national statistics offices. These data suffer from a set of limitations related to time and space resolution, that makes analysis of a cross-border phenomenon such as migration far from straight-forward. Social big data have been proposed to fill some of the gaps and complement traditional data types. Approaches have started to appear, and they promise to enable the construction of new migration-related indices that can provide better time and space resolution. Analysis is difficult here as well, as big data may suffer from selection bias and other issues. It remains to be seen how these data will actually fill the gaps in traditional data, and whether they will open new avenues for migration research. This workshop aims to enable the sharing of experiences with big data and migration among an interdisciplinary set of researchers and audience. We want to bring together not only researchers from academia, but also from institutions working with migration, and industry. The overall objective is to understand better what are the plausible areas of study where big data can make a difference, and what are the methodologies employed to date. The workshop is part of recently funded European project “HumMingBird: Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective
| Start | End | Program |
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| 8:40pm | 9:00am | Connection setup |
| 9:00am | 9:05am | Welcome to HMB2020 Tuba Bircan |
| SESSION 1 Chair: Tuba Bircan |
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| 9:05am | 9:45am | Keynote: Nuria Oliver Data Science against COVID-19 - the mobility perspective |
| 9:45am | 10.05am | Contributed talk: Modeling the bias of digital data: an approach to combining digital and survey data to estimate and predict migration trends Yuan Hsiao, Lee Fiorio, Jonathan Wakefield and Emilio Zagheni |
| 10:05am | 10:25am | Contributed talk: Detecting hate speech against migrants and refugees in Twitter using supervised text classification David Blanco-Herrero, Javier Amores, Patricia Sánchez-Holgado, Maximiliano Frías-Vázquez and Carlos Arcila Calderón |
| 10:25am | 10:45am | Contributed talk: Measuring the European Salad Bowl with Superdiversity Laura Pollacci, Alina Sîrbu, Fosca Giannotti and Dino Pedreschi |
| 10:45am | 11:00am | Q&A Session 1 |
| 11:00 | 11:10 | BREAK |
| SESSION 2 Chair: Chair Carlos Arcila Calderón |
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| 11:10am | 11.50am | Keynote: Marzia Rango |
| 11:50am | 12:10pm | Contributed talk: Brain Drain and Brain Gain in Russia: Analyzing International Migration of Researchers by Discipline using Scopus Bibliometric Data 1996-2020 Alexander Subbotin and Samin Aref |
| 12:10pm | 12:30pm | Contributed talk: Studying Brain Drain with Big (scholarly) Data Gianmarco Ricciarelli, Laura Pollacci, Letizia Milli and Giulio Rossetti |
| 12:30pm | 12:50pm | Contributed talk: From Turkey to Europe: Movements of people at the Turkish border in March 2020 Carlos Arcila, Tuba Bircan, Matteo Pignotti, Giulio Rossetti, Albert Ali Salah and Alina Sîrbu |
| 12:50pm | 1:05pm | Q&A Session 2 Chair: Carlos Arcila Calderón |
| 1:05pm | 2:00pm | LUNCH |
| SESSION 3 Chair: Chair Alina Sirbu |
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| 2:00pm | 2:40pm | Keynote: Migration and Cultural Change Hillel Rapoport |
| 2:40pm | 3:00pm | Contributed talk: Estimating Immigrants Integration by Analyzing Shopping Consumption with Machine Learning Riccardo Guidotti, Mirco Nanni, Fosca Giannotti, Dino Pedreschi, Simone Bertoli, Biagio Speciale and Hillel Rapoport |
| 2:40pm | 3:00pm | Contributed talk: Tell us what you think: home and destination attachment for migrants on Twitter Data Jisu Kim, Alina Sîrbu, Giulio Rossetti, Fosca Giannotti and Hillel Rapoport |
| 3:00pm | 3:15pm | Q&A Session 3 Chair: Alina Sîrbu |
| 3:15pm | Discussion |
Nowadays, social networking platforms are a crucial component of the public sphere, fostering discussions and influencing the public perception for a myriad of topics including politics, health, climate change, economics, migration, to name but a few. On the one hand, this represents an unprecedented opportunity to discuss and propose new ideas, democratizing information and giving voice to the crowds. On the other hand however, new socio-technical issues arise. Among the most pressing issues is the spread of fictitious and low-quality information (e.g., fake news, rumors, hoaxes). These questionable means are often used to influence the opposing side about controversial and polarizing topics, or simply to sow discord and erode trust in governments, institutions and societies. The spread of low-quality information is sometimes carried out by groups of coordinated or automated accounts that pollute and tamper with our social environments by injecting and resharing a large number of targeted messages. These issues are currently exacerbated by the recent advances in AI that have made it easy and convenient to fabricate plausible texts, to create high-quality images of non-existing people, and to impersonate public characters in videos (e.g., deepfakes), at large. All these aspects jointly contribute to making our online social ecosystems the ideal landscape for deceit and manipulation. Therefore, prompt responses are expected from decision makers, scholars and practitioners in order to limit the spread and impact of these ailments. The International Workshop on “Information Disorders: Fake News and Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviors (DisInfo’20)” focuses on the study, modeling, and characterization of all challenges related to mis- and dis-information, fake news, coordinated inauthentic behavior and information operations.
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| 9:00am | 9:30am | Login and setup |
| 9:30am | 10:00am | First Keynote speech (25'+5'Q)
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| 10:00am | 10:45am | Contributed talks (3 presentations of 12'+3'Q)
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| 10:45am | 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am | 11:30am | Second Keynote speech (25'+5'Q)
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| 11:30am | 12:15am | Contributed talks (3 presentations of 12'+3'Q)
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The goal of this workshop is to propose an agenda for interdisciplinary research that critically analyses and aggregates socio-technical solutions for limiting misinformation spreading.
To this end, the workshop will engage the participants in:
The workshop will take place from 2 to 5 pm and presentations should be from 2:30 to 3:30.
These are the submissions accepted:
