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                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+3)
                            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
                                    22
                            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 
                             
                            Research presented in this
                                conference was supported by ISF
                                Grant 650/18 “Skepticism about
                                Testimony”.
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