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[Commlist] Online Workshop: Beyond Fake News: Mitigating the Spread of Epistemically Toxic Content

Sun Apr 11 18:30:57 GMT 2021




We would like to welcome you to an online workshop, bringing together scholars and practitioners, in order to discuss the spread of "Epistemically Toxic Content" online.

Registration here: https://forms.gle/cZQiwp1zegoEteNg8 <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 <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

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