With so much information being shared online and on social media during the pandemic and protests, how do we weed out the misinformation from the facts in our newsfeeds? Is […]
The Allied Media Conference emerges out of 20 years of relationship-building across issues, identities, organizing practices and creative mediums. Since the first conference (then the Midwest Zine Conference) in 1999, […]
RightsCon is the world’s leading event on human rights in the digital age. Originally called the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, RightsCon rotated annually between San Francisco and another global […]
The pandemic has thrown into sharp relief the ways mis- and disinformation corrupt public narratives and shape public opinion. False information is already driving conversations about the election.
What does it Mean to Protest Today? Media Manipulation and the Movement for Black Lives, the first workshop in the TaSC series*, will feature a conversation with Dr. Joan Donovan, […]
Event Listing Header Register for the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies/Institute for Research on Male Supremacism virtual conference to join other researchers focused on the right-wing and male supremacism for […]
As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading content can diminish trust in the results of electoral contests, […]
Join us this Wednesday, August 19th, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., for a special live edition of “Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic” with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and […]
The Negative Consequences of Public Health Misinformation: Media Manipulation during the Pandemic, the second workshop in the series, will feature a conversation with Dr. Joan Donovan, Research Director of the […]
In mid July, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP), together with Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program, brought together leaders across different sectors for three days of roundtable […]
Please join Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics to discuss our recently released book on Social Media and Democracy: The State of […]
Join PEN America for a live and interactive media literacy training on Thursday, September 10 at 6:30pm ET to discuss best practices and defense strategies to combat election disinformation this fall. […]
Misinformation and disinformation originating from law enforcement sources, which has lately included Antifa raids, brick piles, poisoned milkshakes and more, has sparked considerable interest in the past few months. But […]
Misinformation around COVID-19 is driving human behavior across the world. Here in the information age, sensationalized clickbait headlines are crowding out actual fact-based content, and, as a result misinformation spreads virally. […]
Event Listing Header Northeastern University-Seattle and the World Affairs Council-Seattle co-sponsor a panel discussion featuring media and political experts talking about what’s real and what’s not, and how to reclaim […]
Data & Society presents its first-ever collaboration with Brooklyn Public Library in this online talk with historian Jill Lepore, who will discuss her new book If Then, a story of “trying […]
.entry-header I am delighted to share the program of the 2020 conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics. For the first time, the conference will be held virtually. The online […]
How is the pandemic changing our nation’s social structures? Does access to technology change who can succeed now and in the future? On Episode 22 of “The Future of Democracy,” […]
Join PEN America on Wednesday, September 30 at 6:30pm ET for a live and interactive media literacy workshop that will focus on examples of mis/disinformation targeting first-time voters and helpful […]
As the nation continues to grapple with the pandemic, we’ve also had to manage a rising “infodemic,” an overabundance of misinformation about COVID-19. Recent Gallup/Knight research shows that a majority […]
A little more than half of eligible voters participated in recent elections which means … close to half did not. Who doesn’t vote and why? Join 92Y for a discussion […]