*CFP* "COMMENTS, HATE SPEECH, DISINFORMATION, AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATION REGULATION", INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

International scientific conference

Comments, hate speech, disinformation, and public communication regulation

(Zagreb, Croatia, Sheraton hotel, 16 and 17 September 2021)

 

In case of an unfavorable epidemiological situation, the conference will be held online.

We invite you to contribute with your scientific papers to theoretical discussions on issues of freedom of speech and censorship of public speech, comments on news portals and social networks, hate speech, disinformation as well as questions about media freedom, right to information, internet neutrality. At the conference, we would like to discuss, among other topics, issues such as how to contribute to the fight against disinformation and hate speech in the age of digital communication, which strategies are acceptable, which stakeholders should be involved and which place belongs to self-regulation and which to the regulatory system? How should legislation participate in this? What are the experiences of different national legal regulations? Information about the conference and how to apply for participation is available via this link.

 

Additional information:

Applications for participation in the conference should be submitted by 15 May 2021.

The application must include: information about the author(s) (contact, position) and a 350-word abstract in English with key words.

A notice of accepted presentations will be sent by 30 May 2021.

The Book of Abstracts will be printed before the conference.

Complete scientific papers must be submitted by 1 September 2021. Papers should be written according to the Guidlines Instructions to Authors available on the conference website (scope, citing, listing literature, marking tables and graphs, and graphic elements).

Scientific papers from the conference will enter the process of double international anonymous review.  Selected papers with the best reviews will be published in the special issue of the journal Medijska istraživanja/Media Research Journal.

All other papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings with international review.