Project title: Safeguarding Ubiquitous Networked Resources: Intelligent Security Ecosystems (SUNRISE)
Safeguarding Ubiquitous Networked Resources: Intelligent Security Ecosystems (SUNRISE).
Research group:
– dr hab. Mariusz Pisarski, prof. WSIiZ – mpisarski@wsiz.edu.pl
– dr Iwona Leonowicz-Bukała – ileonowicz@wsiz.edu.pl
– dr Mikołaj Birek – mbirek@wsiz.edu.pl
Social media creator – mgr Wiktoria Sudoł-Kaszuba – wsudol@wsiz.edu.pl
SUNRISE 2026 is a platform for interdisciplinary discussion at the intersection of hypertext theory and security. Hypertext research was not born in a vacuum: Vannevar Bush’s 1945 vision of the Memex emerged directly from his role coordinating the US wartime scientific effort — including the Manhattan Project — and his conviction that networked, associative information systems were essential to managing the complexity of modern conflict. The ARPANET that followed was likewise a defence initiative before it was a public infrastructure. Security, in other words, was not a later concern grafted onto hypertext — it was present at its origin. osobistych
Today, we need to return to that awareness. In an era defined by information warfare, hybrid operations, and a fundamental shift in the nature of battlefields — from conventional weapons systems to drone warfare and remotely coordinated strikes — the structural properties of hypertext (linking, navigation, provenance, composition) have become both instruments of attack and potential frameworks for defence.
The Hypertext 2026 theme of „hypertext as a method” creates the right conditions for bringing security questions into a framework where media philosophy, semiotics, and social analysis meet the technical realities of threat detection, information security and networked content protection.
Hypertext as a method can frame an inquiry into security from navigational, spatial, and compositional perspectives. Phishing and link manipulation are pathologies of navigational structure. Algorithmic amplification of disinformation exploits spatial hypertext’s associative logic. The crisis of content provenance is a crisis of compositional authority. AI overproduction of texts sharpens all three. SUNRISE workshop presents a methodological claim: that security belongs inside hypertext theory, where design design philosophy goes in hand with practical implementations of augmentation tools that hypertext offers.
We invite papers, short papers, demos and posters focused on, but not limited to, the following topics:
– Security as network, hypertext as method: historical and philosophical reflections on secure network design, from Athenian epistemic circles to alternative social networks today
– Security-by-design in hypertext authoring platforms: threat models and access controls in web-based writing and publishing tools
– Information security: new paradigms, ned directions in the context of misinformation, and strategies of influence operations
– Navigational integrity: XSS, link manipulation, phishing as navigational fraud, and cybersecurity literacy as navigational competence
– Spatial structure: influence operations and computational propaganda modelled as spatial hypertext pathology; NLP analysis of disinformation cascades; anomaly detection as reconstruction of adversarial network topology
– Compositional authority: C2PA and provenance standards as hypertext metadata; AI overproduction and the crisis of authorship in networked knowledge; GDPR in semantically linked systems
– Augmentation under threat: educational responses to synthetic media; comparative European web security regulation; information warfare as adversarial hypertext
– Predictive AI models for social media threat assessment: early detection of influence operations, astroturfing, and computational propaganda using network-level features
– Platforms and literacies: critical perspectives on the liability of content providers and the competence of users.
Important dates
– [Submission deadline] — 13 July 2026
– [Notification of acceptance] — 30 July 2026
– [Camera ready] — 30 August 2026
– [Workshop date] — 14 September ACM Hypertext 2026, London
Submission
Submissions should be made via the HT’26 EasyChair submission page > workshops > select the SUNRISE track. We welcome short papers (4–6 pages) and position papers (2–4 pages) in ACM format. Work-in-progress and experimental implementations are particularly encouraged.
