The Journal of Online Trust and Safety published a new issue today, featuring the conference proceedings for the 2023 Trust and Safety Research Conference. The issue includes research and commentaries from academia, industry, and civil society.

Peer-reviewed articles and research notes in this issue include:

“Your Protection is in Your Hands Only”: User Awareness and Adoption of Privacy and Security Practices in Five Majority World Countries | Rebecca Umbach, Anubha Singh, Ashley Marie Walker

Studying the Online Deepfake Community | Brian Timmerman, Pulak Mehta, Progga Deb, Kevin Gallagher, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Siddharth Garg, Rachel Greenstadt

Insights from a Comparative Study on the Variety, Velocity, Veracity, and Viability of Crowdsourced and Professional Fact-Checking Services | Andy Zhao, Mor Naaman

Identifying Search Directives on Social Media | Ronald E. Robertson, Amy Dunphy, Shelby Grossman, Renée DiResta, David Thiel

Authoritarian Alliances and the Politicking of Data in Africa | Beverley Townsend, Arthur Gwagwa

Commentaries in this issue include: 

Future Challenges for Online, Crowdsourced Content Moderation: Evidence from Twitter’s Community Notes | Valerie Wirtschafter, Sharanya Majumder

Toward Better Automated Content Moderation in Low-Resource Languages | Gabriel Nicholas, Aliya Bhatia

Toward a Common Baseline Understanding of Trust and Safety Terminology | Farzaneh Badiei, Alex Feerst, David Sullivan

Embedding Societal Values into Social Media Algorithms | Michael S. Bernstein, Angèle Christin, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Chenyan Jia, Michelle Lam, Nicole Meister, Nathaniel Persily, Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Jeanne L. Tsai, Johan Ugander, Chunchen Xu

Social Contagion, from Suicide to Online Challenges to Eating Disorders: Current Research and Harm Mitigation Strategies for Youth Online | Anjuli Corzine, Vicki Harrison

The Journal of Online Trust and Safety maintains a rigorous and fast peer-review process. The average time between submission and acceptance for all accepted research articles in this issue was 3.5 months. 26% of research articles and 42% of commentaries were accepted for the conference proceedings issue. More submission statistics are available on the Journal website.

Upcoming Journal Submission Deadlines:

2024 Winter Issue

• Submission deadline for peer-reviewed research articles: October 6, 2023
• Submission deadline for commentaries: December 12, 2023

Special Issue on Authoritarian Regimes and Online Safety

• Submission deadline for peer-reviewed research articles: November 1, 2023
• Submission deadline for commentaries: March 1, 2024

2024 Fall Issue

• Submission deadline for peer-reviewed research articles: June 3, 2024
• Submission deadline for commentaries: September 2, 2024