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Online Workshop: Beyond Fake News: Mitigating the Spread of Epistemically Toxic Content (April 21-22, Zefat/Haifa)
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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