Call for papers: 'Digital platforms and artificial intelligence: vectors of disinformation, hate and adversarial abuse online'
Dear members of the Ámbitos community, we are pleased to inform you that we have just opened the call for submissions for the monograph 'Digital platforms and artificial intelligence: vectors of disinformation, hate and adversarial abuse online', which will be published in issue 68 of our journal. The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2025.
Scope
A contemporary common ground spans the world today and is formed by digital platforms that work with integral technology that advances over the individual, and in which business models based on marketing strategies that intermittently articulate actions to attract users' attention, and thus capture the human experience to be immediately transformed into data, sold to the tangible and intangible market. In this context, disinformation, hate and adversarial abuse online (DiResta, 2024) are phenomena that have greater potential to go viral than factual content. Primary artificial intelligence, commonly known as algorithmic structure, has worked to extract human data from the opacity of platforms and has facilitated the creation of waves of disinformation, especially in countries in the Global South, where laws still do not cover all online crimes and there is no regulation of Big Tech.
The entry of generative artificial intelligence into the digital market over the last two years has led to greater speed in the production, distribution and circulation of communication pieces containing disinformation and hate, through the use of AI. Furthermore, the encounter of the interests of digital platforms with the interests of marketing groups, political groups and ideological groups of different matrices, gives rise to different consequences in the social environment. The manipulation, harassment and exploitation of human affections cause everything from social cancellations on digital networks, with consequences for people's mental health, to a visibly growing influence on the global geopolitical map, where democratic regimes are retreating and dictatorial and totalitarian regimes are advancing. Finally, the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report 2024 listed disinformation combined with artificial intelligence as one of the greatest risks to humanity in the next 10 years.
Descriptors: Disinformation; Digital platforms; Artificial intelligence; Adversarial abuse online; Digital influencers.
In this context, this dossier will include scientific papers that explore the following lines of research:
- Platforms, AI and disinformation.
- Platforms, AI and disinformation as vectors that intervene in democratic regimes.
- Digital influencers and adversarial abuse online.
- Gender-based violence on social media.
- Violence and racism on social media.
- Violence and xenophobia on social media.
- Misinformation about the environment.
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence.
Thematic publishers:
Phd. Ana Regina Rêgo
Journalist. Specialist in Humanities from PUC-RS-Brazil. Master's degree in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. PhD in Communication Processes from the Methodist University of São Paulo. Part of her PhD was carried out at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Postdoctoral degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is currently doing a Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Seville. She has been president of the Brazilian Association of Researchers in Media History and of the Brazilian Federation of Communication Associations. She created the National Network to Fight Disinformation in Brazil. Full Professor of the Graduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Piauí-Brazil. Email: anareginaregoleal@ufpi.edu.br
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0915-8715
Phd. Clarissa Carvalho
Journalist. Specialist in Trends and Perspectives in Journalism from the Federal University of Piauí (UFPI). Master's degree in Anthropology and Archaeology from UFPI. PhD in Social Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). She has been a professor at the Federal University of Piauí and the State University of Piauí, in Brazil. In the United States, she has been a professor of Urban Anthropology and Sociology at Worcester State University (WSU) and a visiting researcher at the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, at the University of Massachusetts in Boston (UMass Boston). She is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts. E-mail: clarissascarvalho@gmail.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0305-7247
The deadline for submission of articles is 31 May 2025 and will be done through the Open Journal System (OJS) platform on the website of Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación: https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/Ambitos/about/submissions
Articles must follow the journal's submission instructions and can be submitted in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
The special issue will be published in issue 68 of Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación, scheduled for publication in October 2025.
Any questions about this special issue can be sent by email to the following address: anareginaregoleal@ufpi.edu.br
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