Computational Approaches to Digital War Media: AI, Ethics, and Social Dynamics on Telegram.
The workshop was held on 15th June 2026 and had participations as following:
9:30 - 10 AM – Welcome to workshop Overview – Devanjan / Andrew / Sohan
10:00 – 10:20 - Multimodal AI for War Media Classification – Yash Chaudhary
10:20 – 10.40 - Analysing Cross-Modal Inconsistency as a Signal for Propaganda Detection in Russian-Language Telegram Channels – Kiran Balamurugan
10.40 – 11:00 – Unsupervised Media Provenance on Conflict-Zone Telegram: Detecting Recycled and Synthetic Content Without Labels --- Nikita
11:00 – 11:20 – Cross-Platform Flows and the Hybrid Information Battlefield: Tracking the Migration and Transformation of Telegram War Content across X and YouTube-- Jialu
11:20 – 11.40 – Mapping Digital Communities of War on Telegram ---- Daiyang
11.40 – 12.00 ----- Authenticity-Aware Multimodal Classification of War-Related Telegram Content for Financial Market Signal Extraction --- Sanjoi
12.00 – 12.15 Final discussion
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Some of the research topics discussed are as below:
Workshop Introduction Video
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/t/1_16gb60vg
Workshop Research Work Video by Yash Chaudhary
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/t/1_mfb9w3pt
Workshop Research Work Video by Kiran Balamurugan
