Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

Over the years, there has been a distinction between education and learning, as well as between communication, information and data, to name a couple of examples. However, nowadays they are mistakenly used as synonyms, through new information technologies, and more specifically, in social networks and in educational institutions. From the perspective of communication theory and information technology, the sum of each of the contributions made by the pioneers and specialists of the 20th century provided a more accurate picture of reality and context.

A reality that could not be easily manipulated by traditional media (press, radio and television) as it is now, through the bits of information technology or the pixels of plasma screens. In addition, when this manipulation undermines the foundations of the democratic system, those responsible for it must assume responsibility for the seriousness of such events, particularly in the places where future generations are educated.

Usually, teachers have as their main role to impart knowledge or skills in the educational process. Education is a formal process that can be developed within physical classrooms and/or at a distance, through virtual classrooms or campuses, thanks to the democratization of the Internet. On the other hand, the learning process is more extensive and long-lasting over time, since it involves a constant acquisition of new knowledge, skills and abilities, through various channels or communication instruments, whether interactive or not.

Through education and learning, today, millions of human beings are trying to quickly acquire the basic knowledge to understand the functioning, the main benefits and possible disadvantages of artificial intelligence, but with a great difference from what happened in the process of democratization of the Internet at the end of the 20th century. This contrast is that the media have begun to emit two alarm signals, in the social metamorphosis that is intended to be achieved in the short term. On the one hand, the imposition of an ambivalent model of the democratic electoral system, through the algorithms used by artificial intelligence, that is, “algocracy.”

This is a bipolar paradigm: Algorithms + democracy, or also, algorithms + autocracy. On the other hand, this last equation has begun to be observed with educational corruption and verticalist / authoritarian power, which is being silently implemented in the classrooms.

Both alarm signals have begun to sound lately, at the time of choosing the main institutional authorities (rectors), supposedly respecting the statutes of university autonomy. However, the media tells us that democracy no longer exists in certain academic areas, due to the expansion of the G Factor (G = Garduña / Gardunia). These first signs reveal the possibility of losing the democratic system in universities.

These educational centers should have as their north in their daily activities universal access to secular education, and not formative commercialism. As is well known, “education” and “health” are the two fundamental pillars of any society that calls itself developed from a cultural point of view. Therefore, it is necessary to examine in detail this negative factor called the Garduña (Spanish) or Gardunia (English), which from the computer sciences is not only eating away at the foundations of universities founded in the 13th century (Salamanca), or those nominally referred to European royalty (Madrid), or new international university (La Rioja) to cite a couple of examples from the Mediterranean, but also promotes social and global disinformation.

While many in the education and computer science sector present themselves as data analysts, promoters of educational excellence, specialists in the didactic use of the latest information and communication technologies, strategists in the transfer of knowledge between the university and industry / business, promoters of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) with artificial intelligence, organizers of ethics committees, etc., the truth is that the media and its professionals observe how telling the truth and exercising freedom of expression is no longer possible because the Gardunia intend to impose the gag law throughout our planet.

In this space we intend to unite synergies to counteract that negative factor that is the Garduña / Gardunia, which implies in an explicit and implicit way the annihilation of the democratic system through the ICTs. Therefore, in this space we invite all communicators (editor, journalist, publicist, web content manager, and so on), teachers, students, researchers, industrialists, businessmen, etc., to present true cases of personal and/or group experiences, results of experiments, reports of criminal acts, detailed verification of fraud, and so on; ranging from the granting of academic degrees, scholarships, prizes, and so forth, rigged in advance, publications arranged between friends, pathological narcissism in social networks, university elections with allegations of fraud, favoritism for access to lifelong teaching positions and the rest of the illegal actions that the members of the Garduña / Gardunia enjoy with global “immunity” and “impunity.” These actions are being transferred to artificial intelligence systems through the use of chatbots and ethics committees of local people. 

This is a reality that is already affecting the quality of education, the veracity of online data and the transparency of citizen information and communicability. Below is a first set of main and secondary themes, which can be expanded by potential participants in this international conference:

• Algocracy
• Assessment: Freedom of Expression
• Damage Reputation through False Statements
• Destruction of Human Dignity with Illegal Algorithms and AI
• Ecosystems of Immoral Behaviors
• Education Narcotized
• Fact Checking Tools
• Fake Professional Ethics
• Gardunia Factor in Higher Education: Individual, Social and Economical Consequences
• Information and Communication Technologies: New Generations and Labor Effect of University Inbreeding
• Manufacture of Academics, Professorships, Doctorates, Master's Degrees, Awards, and Scholarships from Universities, Institutions, Associations, Organizations and Foundations (Public / Private / Hybrid)
• Mapping of Corrupt Centers (Education / Learning / Research and Development / International Events)
• Mass Media and New Media: Training Role
• Mechanisms and Strategies for Annihilation of International Conferences and Scientific Working Groups
• Models of Information Distortions
• Parochialism and Online Provocations: Measurement of Modus Operandi
• Pseudo Sciences Diffusion from Women Studies
• Right of Information
• Right to Free and Secular Education
• Scientific Information: Censuring the Reality
• Social Methodologies for Detecting Cyber-bullyism / Bullyism, Bossing and Stalking in CS (Computer Science), HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), UE (Usability Engineering), UX (User Experience), UCD (User Centered Design), AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality), RecSys (Recommender System), RI (Retrieval Information), and STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading / Recreation / Robotics, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics)
• Social Networks: Studies of Dynamics and Statics Contents
• STREAM: Myths and Realities from Social Communication
• Techniques of Distinction between Data, Information, Communication and Communicability
• Universal Human Rights and Information Technologies
• Xenophobia: Social and Work Privileges in High Education

These are some of the reasons why this space is opened for constructive debate, the presentation of projects, new paradigms, discourse analysis methodologies, techniques for detecting fake news, etc., among other tools that can facilitate the task of information and communication professionals, given the emergence of artificial intelligence. These first topics do not exclude others that can be added to the set. All of them will be welcome. This list must be complemented with another pillar of culturally developed societies, such as the process of learning and education of a secular, free and universal type. That is, maintaining the basic principle that the media not only inform, but also educate people.

This is an international conference “100% in-person.”

Best regards, 

Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (Chair - coordinator)
&
Pamela Fulton and Doris Edison (International Secretariat)

ALAIPO: Asociación Latina Interacción Persona-Ordenador –Latin Association of HCI (www.alaipo.com) and AINCI: Asociación Internacional de la Comunicación Interactiva –International Association of Interactive Communication (www.ainci.com). Address: Via Tabajani, S. 15 (7) - 24121 (Bergamo) Italy :: c/ Angel Baixeras, 5 - AP 1638 - 08080 (Barcelona), Spain. Email: info@alaipo.com :: info@ainci.com

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2. The events have the following deadlines:

:: Works Submissions: Open. Consequently, as they are received, they will be evaluated. It is a way to speed up the process to make up the final program of the international conference, visa requirements, should plan travel well in advance, etc. In other words, it is not necessary to wait until the deadline to send them for the evaluation process. 

:: Deadline: 09.21.2025 – 23:59 local time in Hawaiian Islands
:: Authors Notification: Some days after the submission/s
:: Camera-ready, full papers: October, 8th 2025

Conference: October, 13 - 15  

3. Program Committee:

:: Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (chair - coordinator)

Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, Parallel Session, Research in Progress and Doctoral Consortium: Ana Martínez. Complutense University (Spain), Carmen García. University of Sevilla (Spain), Giulia Mancini. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy), and Miguel C. Ficarra. AInCI, ALAIPO and FMF (Italy & Spain).

Honorary Committee:

:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands) 
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)

Scientific Scientific, Steering and Technical Committees:

:: Adriana Ortiz. Complutense University (Spain)
:: Amanda Rivera. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Ana Cardozo. Complutense University (Spain)
:: Ana Martínez. Complutense University (Spain)
:: Ana Pérez. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Anna Parodi. University of Genova (Italy)
:: Annamaria Poli. University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
:: Aymen Elkhlifi. Paris Sorbonne University (France)
:: Carmen García. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Chia-Wen Tsai. Ming Chuan University (Taiwan)
:: Claudia Rébola. University of Cincinnati (USA)
:: Daniela Tamburini. Sperimenta Centro Studi Cinema e Formazione di Milano (Italy)
:: Danny Barrantes. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Diego González. National Research Council (Italy)
:: Derrick de Kerchove. University of Toronto (Canada)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Francesca Bocchi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Franco Casali. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Giulia Mancini. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
:: Héctor Montes. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands)
:: Jeff Williams. National Univeristy of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Jorge Fonseca. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
:: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Laurence Bender. National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina)
:: Liliana Māţă. "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău (Romania)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lorenzo García Aretio. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Marc Dubois. Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
:: María Carranza. University of Molise (Italy)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra. Alaipo, Ainci and FMF (Italy & Spain)
:: Ming-Chien Hung. Nanhua University (Taiwan)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nela Načinović. University of Rijeka (Croatia)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Oriol Camacho. University of Granada (Spain)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Roberto von Sprecher. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Rosa Smurra. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sebastián Gabo. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Sergio Salinas. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Silvia Poncio. Interamerican Open University (Argentina)
:: Stafford Griffith. University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
:: Terry Ruas. University of Göttingen (Germany)
:: Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
:: Tom Murphy. University College Dublin (Ireland)
:: Vasileios Paliktzoglou. University of Eastern Finland (Finland)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Virginia Guarinos Galán. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)