C+J 2024: The 2024 Computation + Journalism Symposium Northeastern University Boston, MA, United States, October 25-27, 2024

Conference website	https://idi.provost.northeastern.edu/event-directory/the-2024-computation-journalism-symposium/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cj2024
Submission deadline	June 15, 2024

⚠️  Extended submission deadline to June 15 ⚠️ 

The Computation + Journalism Symposium is a space for anyone working at, or curious about, the intersections of computation and journalism. This includes practicing journalists, independent data storytellers, computational social scientist, artists, digital humanities scholars, cartographers, and others. It has been hosted in prior years at Stanford, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, Columbia, ETH Zurich, and Univ. of Miami.

Talks and sessions might include:

• “Behind the scenes” on novel digital storytelling in news settings
• Case studies of new collaborations between journalists and computer scientists
• Introductions to tools and techniques that support fresh approaches to reporting and storytelling
• A conversation between journalists and computer scientists that explores the advancements in technology

Submission Guidelines

Sessions at C+J 2024 might explore their use in journalism to help the public understand complex issues. We are not focusing on a specific theme this year, so this could include topics such as algorithm audits, novel election coverage, AI in the newsroom, open-source investigations, monitoring news for human rights violations, new digital storytelling tools and techniques, or other emerging or relevant topics.

The program will include a few keynote speakers in general sessions, some invited sessions, contributed talks, papers, and sessions, and social outings over the course of the two-day event.

Submitting a short paper

As in past years, you are invited to submit a paper for review. These should be up to five pages in length (including references). Accepted papers will be grouped into topical sessions. This are refereed papers that will be included in the informal online proceedings published post-conference. You should format them using the started ACM templates, available for Word, LaTeX, or Overleaf on the official ACM template website. 

The C+J 2024 online proceedings will be linked off our conference site, but should be considered "non-archival" for the sake of journal submissions elsewhere. At the same time, we highly encourage unique and novel contributions with limited overlap to other related publications the author may have or intend to publish. 

Use the "Paper" upload portion of the submission form to submit a PDF of not more than 5 pages.

Submitting a contributed workshop

You are invited to propose a contributed workshop with an abstract of at most 250 words. These should be hands-on training relevant to journalists or researchers. Please briefly include:

• Impact statement summarizing the main goals and expected outcomes of the workshop
• Previous iterations of the proposed workshop at other conferences
• Any space or technical requirements to run the workshop (screens, computers, etc.)

Use the "Title" and "Abstract" fields of the submission form to fill in these items.

Submitting a contributed talk

You are invited to propose a contributed talk with an abstract of at most 250 words. These should be separate talks that will be organized into sessions by the Program Committee and likely run in parallel at the event. This should include:

• Your name, including affiliation and email address
• Talk Title
• Talk Abstract (250 words or less)

Use the "Title" and "Abstract" fields of the submission form to fill in these items.

Submitting a contributed session

You are invited to propose a broader contributed session made up of three to four individual speakers. Each speaker should provide an abstract of at most 250 words, and the session organizer should submit a similar abstract summarizing the topic the session will focus on. Your submission should include:

1. Session Title
2. Session Description. Please provide any of the following:
   • Short description of session, including focus, content, timeliness, and appeal
   • List of invited speakers/panelists, including affiliations and email addresses for each and tentative title for each presentation
   • Format of session (e.g., chair, four speakers, and discussant)
3. Session organizer, including affiliation and email address
4. Session chair, including affiliation and email address
5. Discussant (if any), including affiliation and email address

Use the "Title" and "Abstract" fields of the submission form to fill in these items.

Committees

Program Committee

• Rahul Bhargava, r.bhargava@northeastern.edu
• Chenyan Jia, c.jia@northeastern.edu
• Piotr Sapiezynski,p.sapiezynski@northeastern.edu

Organizing committee

• John Wihbey, j.wihbey@northeastern.edu
• Nick Diakopoulos, nad@northwestern.edu
• Mark Hansen, mh3287@columbia.edu
• Alberto Cairo, a.cairo@miami.edu
• Cheryl Phillips, cep3@stanford.edu
• Rich Gordon, richgor@northwestern.edu
• Bahareh Heravi, b.heravi@surrey.ac.uk
• Larry Birnbaum, birnbaum@cs.northwestern.edu

Venue

Northeastern University will be hosting C+J, beginning the evening of Friday, October 25, and running through Sunday, October 27. 

While welcoming many perspectives, C+J is hosted by universities and embraces an academic approach to conferences, inviting proposals for short papers, contributed talks, and contributed sessions.

Contact

Questions? Please contact:

John Wihbey, j.wihbey@northeastern.edu