Knight Media Forum 2022 | Knight Foundation
On Feb. 22-24, join us virtually for the 15th Annual Knight Media Forum (KMF), where we will examine current trends impacting our democracy. Top thought leaders in philanthropy, journalism, education, […]
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Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship | Annenberg School for Communication
Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian state as an analog entity that forbids the agency of its digital citizens. In this talk, James Yékú will track the […]
CARGC Colloquium: James Yékú, University of Kansas | Annenberg School for Communication
“Nigeria’s Twitter Ban and the Logic of Cultural Netizenship” CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT ON ZOOM About the Talk Its ban of Twitter in 2021 marked the Nigerian […]
Virtual Colloquium on Race, Racism, and American Media | Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute
This event will explore historic and contemporary racial discrimination in all modalities of modern media. Register Here Georgetown University Racial Justice Institute The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier […]
“I feel it in my gut”: Epistemic motivations, political beliefs, and misperceptions of COVID-19 and the 2020 Election | Annenberg School for Communication
The extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump favorability, conservatism, and […]
Elihu Katz Colloquium: Dannagal G. Young (Ph.D. ’07), University of Delaware | Annenberg School for Communication
About the Talk The extent to which we value intuitive or evidence-based reasoning has important implications for our susceptibility to misinformation. National survey data from Nov-Dec 2020 demonstrate that Trump […]
Keynote: Free Speech in the Age of Misinformation | Hart House at the University of Toronto
This year, the Committee’s Keynote event addresses pathways for the preservation of free speech while mediating the harmful effects of misinformation in our present societies. Freedom of speech has long […]
True Costs of Misinformation Workshop | Harvard Shorenstein Center
Harvard University Cambridge, MassachusettsWhat are the financial, social, and human costs of misinformation? What is the price that businesses, hospitals, civil society groups, and schools pay for false or misleading information online? How […]
Stanford Cyber Policy Center Winter Webinar series
Join us for a weekly webinar series organized by the Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center (CPC) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s […]
CDCS Colloquium: All the News That’s Fit to Click | Annenberg School for Communication
Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written, how news is promoted, and even […]
A Citizen Perspective on Mis- and Disinformation | Shorenstein Center
In this talk Claes de Vreese, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society at the University of Amsterdam, addresses how citizens see mis- and disinformation. The talk analyzes how citizens perceive […]
Roundtable: Ukraine and Content Moderation for News Media Sustainability | Annenberg School of Communication
From combatting violent extremism to mitigating misinformation, the news industry is caught in the middle of debates over how best to address a range of online harms. As regulators around […]
Trust in News: Fighting Disinformation | BBC Academy
Welcome to Trust In News 2022: a two day virtual conference, which returns for a second year running – packed with insightful learnings, practical presentations and workshops. We’ll explore the fresh […]
The Present and Future of Misinformation in Canada | The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University
A roundtable focused on misinformation challenges in Canada and what, if anything, we can do about it. About this event This year has been marked by an influx of misinformation, […]
Mapping Political Trends Through Twitter | IPL Webinar
Join us for a webinar to launch IPL’s latest tool: the Congressional Tweet Tracker. We’ll show you how the tool can help you analyze trends in US immigration politics, explain the […]
The Social Media Summit | MIT
The Social Media Summit @ MIT (SMS @ MIT) brings together the world’s leaders in social technology to examine one of the most critical and compelling issues of our time […]
Resisting and Reversing Western Media Imperialism?: Turkey’s Global Communication Outlets | Annenberg School for Communication
Since the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling AKP government has vastly expanded its global communication apparatus to promote the country as a rising great power and the benevolent guardian of Muslims. In […]
Misinformation vs. The Machine: Foundations of News Literacy | The Colorado Sun
The Colorado Sun and News Literacy Project bring you a three-part series about helping leaders teach others about fact from fiction. About this event Part one: Foundations of News Literacy […]
Symposium on Disinformation Studies | Swarthmore College
A central feature of the Disinformation Studies program is the annual Symposium on Disinformation Studies. The Symposium is a multiday, interdisciplinary, cross-sector conference featuring practitioners and scholars who diagnose the […]
Operationalizing responsible AI | The Brookings Institution
There is widespread agreement among ethicists and tech advocates that responsible AI principles requires fairness, transparency, privacy, human safety, and explanability. But it is not always clear how to operationalize […]
Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy | University of Chicago
With democracies across the globe under assault,The University of Chicago’s nonpartisan Institute of Politics and The Atlantic are hosting Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy, a groundbreaking three-day event exploring […]
Lies, Free Speech, and the Law | Knight First Amendment Institute
On April 8, 2022, the Knight Institute will host a symposium to explore how the law regulates or should regulate false and misleading speech. The symposium, titled “Lies, Free Speech, and the […]
The Future of Social Media: Covering, Researching, and Regulating Platforms | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics
Social media platforms generate mountains of data — about what we like, what news we read, and who we talk to. This information, for the most part, is only available […]
Memory and Belief Regression After the Correction of Misinformation | Shorenstein Center
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard Kennedy School research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory […]
CSMaP Second Annual Conference | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics
We convened 50 leading scholars for a two-day virtual conference to present research on a range of topics at the intersection of social media and politics, with particular focus paid […]
Fake News & Media Literacy: A ‘Hear Me Out’ Dialogue | Free Library of Philadelphia
Join your fellow Pennsylvanians in dialogue across distance and difference! The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased our reliance on social media and the Internet for information. This development, combined with underlying […]
CARGC Colloquium: EU Futures in the Disinformation Age | Annenberg Center for Communication
The concatenation of European crises shows major transformations in the contemporary international arena and points to the reasons for a structural change in the modes and uses of European public […]
Living by Protocol | Harvard Art Museum
Harvard Art MuseumThe use of social media has become a daily routine for billions of people throughout the last decade. The problems and possibilities of this new media reality were reflected and […]
The Tower and the Park: Structural Misalignments of Social Media | Berkman Klein Center
RSVP for this virtual event by Monday, May 16, 3:00 PM ET. Zuccotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street, and One Liberty Plaza, the multi-billion-dollar tower, represent a complex […]
The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World | Berkman Klein Center
Who is part of technology development, who funds that development, and how we put technology to use all influence the outcomes that are possible. To change those outcomes, we must—all […]
Librarians and Misinformation: Curating the Information Needs of Communities | Shorenstein Center
While trust in political institutions rapidly deteriorates and the technology and media companies that we rely on repeatedly fail to meet our information needs, the public still overwhelmingly trusts libraries. […]
Dismantling disinformation | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
An on-demand video will be posted after the event. We’ve all seen the perils of disinformation. So, how do we combat it? This panel will explore concrete proposals for dismantling […]
Dialogues & Debates | Mozilla Festival
VirtualOn Tuesday, July 26, three experts at the intersection of online privacy and digital rights will unpack these questions, and others during a virtual Dialogues & Debates Panel. Watch the […]
New COVID States Project Report: The Dobbs Decision, Support for Abortion, and 2022 Voting
VirtualA team of researchers from the COVID States Project will discuss the findings from their latest report comparing public attitudes regarding abortion before and after the Dobbs decision was announced, […]
Summer Workshop on Combating Misinformation: Theoretical and Design Challenges to Support a Healthy Information Ecosystem | Syracuse University
VirtualAlthough misinformation has been used as a tool for propaganda throughout history, it has recently garnered immense public attention following the Brexit referendum and the US elections in 2016. Online […]
Can regulation solve the problem of misinformation? | Information Futures Lab, Brown University
HybridIs there a place for government regulation to mitigate the harmful effects of misinformation? Over the past year, the EU Commission’s Digital Services Act, and the Online Safety Bill in […]
Trust & Safety Research Conference | SIO & TSF
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesHosted at Stanford University’s Frances. C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, the Trust and Safety Research Conference will convene trust and safety practitioners, people in government and civil society, and academics in fields like […]
Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM)
VirtualAfter three successful editions, the Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) returns for a 4th edition, this time hosted as a fully virtual conference by Boise State University […]
2022 Midterms: NYU Center for Social Media & Politics Seminar Series
ZoomMedia Consumption, Misinformation, and Polarization Social media has transformed the media and political landscape, but the vast majority of Americans still get their news from traditional sources such as local […]
CDCS Book Talk: Asta Zelenkauskaitė, Drexel University
Annenberg School Room 108With the prevalence of disinformation geared to instill doubt rather than clarity,Creating Chaos Online, unmasks disinformation when it attempts to pass as deliberation in the public sphere and distorts the democratic […]
Democracy’s Data: Book Talk With Dan Bouk
The Law School’s LawTech Center focuses on pressing questions in law and technology, including policy concerns, data analysis of legal texts and the use of technology in the legal profession. […]