Hello, The Centre for Internet and Society, India is announcing the launch of a seminar series to showcase research around digital rights and technology policy, with a focus on the Global South. The CIS seminar series will be a venue for researchers to share works-in-progress, exchange ideas, identify avenues for collaboration, and curate research. The theme for the first seminar in the series is Information Disorders. This includes research that proposes empirical, replicable methods of understanding the types, forms or nature of information disorder or research that attempts to understand regulatory approaches, the layers of production and the roles played by different agents in the spread of ‘fake news’. Accordingly, we invite submissions examining the relationship between digital technology and information disorder across a spectrum of fields and disciplines. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: 1. Information disorders during COVID-19 2. Effects of coordinated campaigns on marginalised communities 3. Journalism, the State, and the trust in media 4. Platform responsibility in information disorder 5. Information disorder in international law/constitutional/human rights law 6. Information disorder as a geopolitical tool 7. Sociopolitical and cultural factors in user engagement Key dates: Abstract Submission Deadline: August 25th Results of Abstract review: September 8th Full submissions (of draft papers): September 30th Seminar date: October 7th Please send in your abstracts to workshops@cis-india.org. Please contact aman@cis-india.org in case of any queries. Best, Ambika Tandon Senior researcher CIS