Online Workshop: Beyond Fake News: Mitigating the Spread of Epistemically Toxic Content (April 21-22)
We would like to welcome you to an online workshop, bringing together communication scholars, philosophers and practitioners, in order to discuss the spread of "Epistemically Toxic Content" online. Registration here: https://forms.gle/cZQiwp1zegoEteNg8 The full program can be found below, and in the registration form. Program Beyond Fake News: Mitigating the Spread of Epistemically Toxic Content An International Online Workshop Department of Management Information Systems, Zefat Academic College Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa Organized by Aviv Barnoy, Ori Freiman, Arnon Keren and Boaz MIller April 21-22, 2021 All times are in Israel Standard Time (GMT+2) Participation in the workshop is free. To receive a participation link, please pre-register at https://forms.gle/cZQiwp1zegoEteNg8 by April 19, 2021. Day 1: Wednesday, April 21 17:00 – 17:05 | Welcome Greetings Professor Daniel Statman, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa 17:05 - 18:05 | Session 1: Improving Users' Skills Axel Gelfert | Philosophy, Literature, History of Science and Technology | Technical University of Berlin | Cultivating epistemic routines for navigating toxic epistemic environments Sarit Barzilai | Education | University of Haifa | Beyond technological fixes and nudges: An educational approach to addressing misinformation 18:15 - 19:15 | Session 2: Norms of Posting and Sharing Sacha Altay | Cognitive Science | Institut Jean Nicod | Understanding the spread of fake news Glenn Anderau | Philosophy | University of Zürich | Passive testimony: Exploring social media as an epistemic environment 19:30 - 20:30 | Session 3: Public Manipulation C. Thi Nguyen | Philosophy | University of Utah | The Seductions of Clarity Richard Rogers | New Media & Digital Culture | University of Amsterdam | Mainstreaming the fringe: How misinformation propagates on social media Day 2: Thursday, April 21 17:00 – 17:05 | Welcome Greetings Professor Opher Etzion, Chair, Department of Management Information Systems, Zefat Academic College 17:05 - 18:05 | Session 4: Global Perspectives Fábio Ribeiro | UTAD | CECS-UMinho| Assessing the quality of the online comments: A methodological proposal from journalistic websites in Portugal, Brazil and Spain Desmond Onyemechi Okocha, Samson A. Shaibu, and Melchizedec J. Onobe | Mass Communication | Bingham University | X-raying the multidimensional implications of institutionalized fake news and disinformation on Nigerian pluralistic society 18:15 - 19:15 | Session 5: Mitigating the Flow of Toxic Content Isaac Record | Lyman Briggs College | Michigan State University | People, Posts, and Platforms: Reducing the spread of online toxicity by contextualizing content and setting norms Aviv Barnoy | Management Information Systems | Zefat Academic College | Philosophy | University of Haifa | Mitigating the spread of epistemically toxic content 19:30 – 20:40 | Closing Session Presenter: Karen Frost-Arnold | Philosophy | Hobart and William Smith Colleges | Epistemic Trash and Toxic Content Commentator: Anat Ben David | Sociology, Political Science and Communication | Open University of Israel Concluding Remarks: Arnon Keren | Philosophy | University of Haifa Boaz Miller | Management Information Systems | Zefat Academic College --- Aviv Barnoy, PhD Research Fellow, Department of Community Information Systems, Zefat Academic College & Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa M: +972528748969 *Check out my latest publications <http://avivbarnoy.com>:* The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native advertising and the convergence of editorial and commercial content <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2020.1836980> (Digital Journalism) / Trusting Others: A Pareto distribution of source and message credibility among news reporters <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0093650220911814> (Communication Research) / How News Become “News” in Increasingly Complex Ecosystems <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1716830> (Journalism studies) / The When, Why, How and So-what of Verifications <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461670X.2019.1593881> (Journalism studies). *Hebrew:* ריאיון בגלובס על תוכן רעיל ופייק-ניוז <https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001354527> / מאמר בעין השביעית על תוכן שיווקי <https://www.the7eye.org.il/399815> / ראיון בגלי צה"ל <https://bit.ly/37SW2mZ>
Apologies for crossposting * Mon, 12 April 2021 16:00 – 17:00 BST Join us today for a talk by Prof Sally Wyatt (Maastricht University)“Touching Data: Touch Me With Your Naked Hand Or Touch Me With Your Glove”. Hosted by Dr Aristea Fotopoulou, part of the the seminar Series - ART/DATA/HEALTH: Communicating public health data creatively during the pandemic. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract Over the past year, many of us have brushed up our data interpretation skills, trying to make sense of excess mortality, reproduction numbers, absolute numbers of infections, percentages of those tested, reported numbers, and calculated numbers. We have been confronted with different kinds of visualisations, including trend lines, bar charts, and maps, often deployed for political ends. There is much to be said and analysed with and about these data by statisticians, epidemiologists, critical data studies scholars, and artists. In this short presentation, I will take a different approach to data and will share some details of an activity done with colleagues in the Netherlands and Canada, during the summer of 2020. Our activity was inspired by the Dear Data project [THE PROJECT — Dear Data (dear-data.com)] of Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec. We focused on touch. Corona symptoms include loss of the senses of taste and smell. But much of the official advice, certainly in the early weeks of the pandemic, warned us to keep physical distance, not to touch other people and certainly to wash our hands thoroughly after every encounter with potentially virus-carrying surfaces and objects. Indirectly, the corona virus has also affected our sense of touch. That is what we explored in our collective project. During the presentation, I will share details of the activity and some of the data and their visualization that we produced. This is very much work-in-progress. During the discussion we would welcome both feedback and suggestions for future collaboration. Calgary-based colleagues: Ariel Ducey, Martina Kelly & Pratim Sengupta Maastricht-based colleagues: Anna Harris, Candida Sanchez Burmester & Andrea Wojczik *Leonard Cohen: Dance me to the end of love (1984) Speaker bio: Sally Wyatt <https://sallywyatt.nl/> is Professor of Digital Cultures at Maastricht University. Sally originally studied economics in Canada and the UK, and completed a PhD in science and technology studies in Maastricht. She has worked in the UK and the Netherlands (since 1999), and has held visiting teaching positions and research fellowships in Canada and various European countries. *BOOK HERE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/touching-data-by-prof-sally-wyatt-tickets-145... ---------------------------- The seminar series 'Communicating public health data creatively during the pandemic' is organised by ART/DATA/HEALTH project (University of Brighton, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council). Find out more here: [https://www.artdatahealth.org<https://www.artdatahealth.org/> Join us in an exciting online seminar series with international speakers exploring how health data have been communicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on creative and artistic representations of data. The series includes perspectives and approaches to data from bioart, community art, participatory dance, media art, film, animation and more traditional forms of data viz. For full programme, abstracts and bookings: https://tinyurl.com/ybcrbzu8 All webinars will be recorded and made available from the ART/DATA/HEALTH project website. Best wishes Aristea ----------------------------- Dr Aristea Fotopoulou UKRI-AHRC Innovation Fellow PI ART/DATA/HEALTH project https://www.artdatahealth.org PI Impact of COVID-19 on arts and health charities (UKRI QR-SPF) University of Brighton, UK A.Fotopoulou@brighton.ac.uk @aristeaf | https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/aristea-fotopoulou
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