Call for Papers: International Congress on Digital Violence (ICDV 2026), October 13–14, 2026
Dates: October 13–14, 2026
Location: Hybrid — Faculty of Law, University of Valencia (Campus dels Tarongers, Valencia, Spain) / Virtual Attendance Available
Submission Deadline: September 20, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. CET
About the Congress
Digital violence in all its forms represents one of the most pressing societal challenges of the digital age. It encompasses a wide spectrum of harmful behaviours, such as cyberbullying, hate speech, harassment, disinformation, and gender-based cyberviolence, that affect individuals’ rights, dignity, and psychological well-being. The anonymity, virality, and algorithmic amplification characteristic of digital environments exacerbate these phenomena. Besides, digital violence certainly creates both visible and invisible borders. In cyberbullying, for instance, physical and psychological violence could go beyond the digital environment and could become visible in the real world. However, physical and psychological harms are often not evident. Indeed, gender-based cyber violence seems invisible for most people and remains concealed until there are episodes of fierce violence.
Hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Valencia, the ICDV 2026 provides a dedicated cross-disciplinary space for legal scholars, computer scientists, criminologists, psychologists, social workers, and policy advocates. The goal of this year’s congress is to interrogate the legal and social parameters of digital harms, address failures in platform regulation and global judicial frameworks, and advance victim-centred pathways to digital justice.
Submission Instructions
All proposals must be submitted by email to violenciadigitalvlc@gmail.com. Submissions should be sent as a single PDF attachment, and the subject line of the email must read: “ICDV 2026 Submission.”
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