Program

The 2024 IEEE Digital Platforms and Societal Harms (DPSH) combines a traditional conference (with peer review papers published in proceedings) with elements of the highly successful Tech-Forum on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms that occurred in 20212022, and 2023

Conference registration is required to participation in the full program.
 
Alternatively you can join us for free online for just the keynote panels by completing this form.  
 
This page will be updated as further details are finalised. 

Conference Schedule

Schedule for Monday October 14

Time Constitution Hall Room A Room B
8:30
Registration opens
9:00

Welcome address

  • Dr Andre Oboler, Conference General Chair
  • Prof. Diana Burley, Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, American University
9:30

Panel on Extremism and Exploitation

  • Moderator: Skip Gilmour
  • Public policy: Brian Hughes
  • AI: Cristina Lopez
  • Technology: Briana Kablack
  • Government: TBA

 

See speaker biographies.

11:00
Coffee Break
11:15
IEEE TechEthics Workshop
Talks 1-3
Talks 4-6
12:15
Lunch and networking
13:30

Public Policy Worksop

  • IEEE Global Public Policy Committee
  • IEEE European Public Policy Committee

Standards Workshop

  • IEEE Standards Association
15:10
Coffee Break
15:30

Panel on Misinformation and Disinformation

  • Moderator: David Matas
  • Public Policy: Joel M. Rubin
  • AI: Zois Boukouvalas 
  • Technology: TBC
  • Standards: Maike Luiken

 

See speaker biographies.

17:00
Talks 7-9
Talks 10-12
18:00
Conference dinner and keynote address

Schedule for Tuesday October 15

Time Constitution Hall Room A Room B
8:30
Registration opens
9:00
Welcome to day 2
9:10

Panel on Hate Speech

  • Moderator: Prof. Pam Nadell
  • Public Policy: Mark Weitzman
  • AI: Andre Oboler
  • Technology: Mallory Knodel
  • Government: Paul Giannasi

See speaker biographies.

10:40
Coffee Break
11:00
Plenary session
12:00
Lunch and networking
13:00

IEEE TechEthics Workshop

Gigwork on Digital Platforms

A detailed description is below. 

Talks 13-18
15:00
Coffee Break
15:30
Talks 19-22
Talks 23-26

The conference will end at 17:00 on Tuesday the 15th of October.

Paper Presentations and talks

The following paper presentations and short talks  will be delivered during the presentation sessions.  Those registered for the full conference can attend these talks in-person or online. Each talk will be 15 minutes with 5 minutes of questions and answers with the author(s).

The times for the presentation of each talk are shown both below and in the main schedule above (cross referenced by the talk number). The table above also provide the room number.  A Zoom link for each room will be emailed to registered participants a few days before the conference starts. 

Talk Talk Title Authors

14 October at 11:15 am to 12:15 am (Washington DC time)

1
Stacking Ensemble Framework for Hate Speech Detection in Bangla Videos
Tanjim Mahmud; Md Hasan Ali; Mohammad Tarek Aziz; Mohammad Shahadat Hossain; Karl Andersson
2
Trials and Challenges Measuring Online Hate
Andre Oboler
3
Leveraging Explainable AI and Sarcasm Features for Improved Cyberbullying Detection in Multilingual Settings
Tanjim Mahmud; Michal Ptaszynski; Fumito Masui
4
Modeling Offensive Content Detection for TikTok
Kasper Cools, Ir.; Gideon Mailette de Buy Wenniger; Clara Maathuis, Ir.
5
Prevention of Disinformation Dissemination Based on Local Wisdom; Case Study of the Mystical Sect "Perjalanan" West Java Indonesia
Catur Nugroho; Rizca Haqqu; Chairunnisa Widya Priastuty; Astri Wulandari; Zalfa Qathrunnada; Jasmine Alya Pramesthi
6
Detection of Deepfake Content Representing Social Harmful Events for Image Forensic Applications Using Machine Learning
Saswata Sarkar; Sourav Dey Roy; Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik

14 October at 5 pm to 6 pm (Washington DC time)

7
Addressing AI-Driven Mis- and Disinformation Risks at the Local Governance Level Through Coordinated, Youth-Empowered Policy Projects With City and State Governments
Carolyn Wang; Kaitlyn Cui; Sam Jung; Oluwamodupe Esther Akintan; Katherine S He; Kayla Huang; Sofia Renee Rodriguez; Jennifer Wang
8
Bridging the Protection Gap: Innovative Approaches to Shield Older Adults From AI-Enhanced Scams
LD Herrera; London Van Sickle; Ashley Podhradsky
9
Towards a Prototype to Leverage Archival Diplomatics to Develop a Framework to Detect and Prevent Fake Video
Nicholas H Rivard; Hoda Amal Hamouda; Victoria Lemieux; Tracey P. Lauriault; Michel Barbeau
10
Abstract: Combatting Hate Speech: An Assessment of a Proposed Canadian Law on Digital Platforms and Societal Harms
David Matas
11
Evolutionary Psychology and the Roots of Hate Speech
Helen Abadzi
12
Comparative Analysis of Online Antisemitism After October 7 on Mainstream Social Media Networks and "Dark Platforms"
Jasmine Beinart

15 October at 1 pm to 3 pm (Washington DC time)

13
Breaking the Porn Silence: Exposing the New Digital Threats Posed by VR and AI in the ‘harmless' Fantasy Genre
Karen Phillips
14
The Mapping of Patterns Project. Dissemination of Political Hate in Spanish Digital Media
Sergio Arce-Garcia; Julio Montero-Díaz
15
Assessing the Impact of Algospeak on Sentiment Analysis Models
Sebastian Leal-Arenas; Roberto Corizzo
16
The Impact of Emojis on User Engagement With Trolling Content in an Online Platform
Diya Saraf; Yuhong Liu; Hooria Jazaieri
17
The Psychological Impacts of Algorithmic and AI-Driven Social Media on Teenagers: A Call to Action
Sunil Arora; Sahil Arora; John D. Hastings
18
Dark Patterns in Shopping, Education & Health Apps
Parinda Rahman; Ifeoma Adaji

15 October at 3:30 pm to 5 pm (Washington DC time)

19
The Hatemedia Project. Analyzing and Monitoring Hate Expressions in Digital Environments in Spain
Elias Manuel Said-Hung, Prof.; Julio Montero-Díaz
20
Monitoring the Evolution of Antisemitic Hate Speech on Extremist Social Media
Raza Ul Mustafa; Nathalie Japkowicz
21
Seeking Optimal Human/Machine Collaborative Practice in Antisemitic Terminology Detection
Wendy Melillo; Jessica Emami; Solene Guarinos; Dhanush Kikkisetti; Melanie Klein; Lisa Liubovich; Raza Ul Mustafa; Nathalie Japkowicz
22
EU Policy and Legislative Initiatives to Fight Against Online Harmful Content
Massimo Pellegrino
23
Can GPT-4 Detect Subcategories of Hatred?
Raza Ul Mustafa; Noman Ashraf; Nathalie Japkowicz
24
From Campus to City Hall: Leveraging Student Expertise for Local Ethical Technology Governance With the Paragon Model
Sofia Renee Rodriguez; Carolyn Wang; Kaitlyn Cui; Jennifer Wang; Kayla Huang; Quinn Wilson
25
Making Online Forums Safer by Encouraging Civil Discourse With Micropayments
Brian Colder

TechEthics Workshops

Gigwork on Digital Platforms: Unpacking social opportunities and societal harms with GIGLANE

 
Powered by advances in machine learning, digital platforms have emerged as ubiquitous infrastructure to constitute contemporary political-economy in at least two ways. Firstly, they represent a new business model, in the form of “online marketplaces that involve at least three parties where the platform provider serves as an intermediary coordinating supply and demand sides of the other two parties”.[1] Secondly, the  rapidly growing platform economy offers work opportunities which fall into two categories.[2] One, is employment i.e, when a person is hired by the platform for its operations, with a legally-defined employment relationship. This category constitutes a tiny fraction of those hired. By contrast, the vast majority of hires perform platform-mediated individual ‘gigs’ or tasks, and are categorized as self-employed or independent contractors with few legal protections.
 
While gig work offers economic opportunities for many who may have few alternatives,  and  platforms project themselves as “a revolution in labour markets”, able to help lift people out of poverty,”[3] the ILO takes a dimmer view. It does not term gig work as decent work, or “work that is productive; ensures equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and men; delivers a fair income, security in the workplace and social protection for families; provides prospects for personal development; and gives workers the freedom to express their concerns, organize and participate in decisions that affect their working lives.”[4] 
 
The session will draw on the experience of the Workshop Coordinator, who is the Principal Investigator of the Fairwork India project. Over the past six years, the project has examined the experiences of gig workers to ask if it is possible for technology-mediated gig work to be more decent or fair. To trigger a discussion among participants about gig work in their own countries, the session will rely on Fairwork principles of pay, conditions, contracts, management (human and algorithmic), and representation, to explore how the reliance on gig work to provide services, by the publicly-accessible but privately-owned platforms, violate the tenets of Sustainable Development Goals 8 (promotion of full and productive employment and decent work for all)., and how they might be mitigated through policy and technology design. In addition, to enable participants to ‘experience’ gig work, the session will rely on the board game GIG LANE developed by the Fairwork India research team at the Center for Information Technology and Public Policy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. 
 
[1] Scholtz, T. 2016. Platform Cooperativism: Challenging the Corporate Sharing Economy. New York, NY: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. p.4 It should be noted that as infrastructure mediating between different groups, platforms hardly need be digital. For example, shopping malls that bring together various stores, and customers seeking different products, are examples of platforms providing infrastructure that is physical.  See, Rysman, M. 2009. The economics of two-sided markets. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(3), 125-143.
[2] International Labour Organization (ILO). 2021. World Employment and Social Outlook: The Role of Digital Labour Platforms in Transforming the World of Work. Geneva, Switzerland: ILO.
[3] Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V., Wood, A., Barnard,, H., Hjorth, I., and Simon, D. P. 2017. The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work at the Global Margins. Oxford, UK: Oxford Internet Institute. p.2
[4] Berg, J., Furrer, M., Harmon, E., Rani, U. and Silberman, M.S. 2018. Digital Labour Platforms and the Future of Work: Towards Decent Work in the Online World. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Organization. p.10