GARFIIELD 2026 (International Conference on Gardunia Factor in Informatics Education and Learning Disinformation) is an academic conference held in Madrid, Spain on 2026-10-15. The paper submission deadline is 2026-09-21.
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 international congress, 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 and cynicism in social networks; university elections with allegations of fraud; favoritism for access to lifelong teaching positions, and the rest of the illegal actions. Ostensibly, today, all the members of the Garduña / Gardunia enjoy with global “immunity” and “impunity.” In synthesis, the legalization of corruption in academic and research areas.
Besides, these actions are being transferred to generative artificial intelligence systems through the use of chatbots and ethics committees of local people, for example. 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
Legalization of Corruption in Academic and Research Sectors
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, Straining, 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.