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Misinformation in Social Media and What to do About It
Media platforms that would seem to have an interest in cultivating a reputation for reliability end up serving as forums for the dissemination and amplification of socially and politically destructive misinformation. Why?
This symposium explores the incentive structures facing actors in the public information ecosystem. Could alterations through regulatory intervention or through voluntary self-restraint, improve the quality of public discourse? Speakers will examine platform self-regulation, regulatory influences on platform incentives, structural market incentives facing profit-seeking actors in the information economy, incentives facing individual users, and potential intervention strategies.
Schedule:
8:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am The Impossible Project: Learning to think at the limits of the possible, together. Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, UB Department of History & UB students
10:45 am How a Better Understanding of Uncertainty Can Help Address Misinformation. John Villasenor, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Law, Public Policy, and Management Faculty Co-Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy
12:15 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Fine. Social Media Is Bad for Us. Now What? Jane Bambauer, Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel Distinguished Professor of Law, The University of Arizona
2:45 pm Tackling Disinformation in the Classroom: Creating an Inclusive Space Where Students’ Interests, Confidence, and Public Participation in Knowledge Production Intersect. Naniette Coleman, PhD candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley, Visitor-in-Residence at the Santa Fe Institute, and UC-National Laboratory Graduate Fellow & students from the Coleman Research Lab
4:30 pm Misinformation & Extremism: A Panel Discussion. Moderator: Yotam Ophir, UB Department of Communication Panelists: Lindsay Hahn, Mark G. Frank, and Yini Zhang, UB Department of Communication, and Matt Kenyon, UB Department of Art
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/1660307-0?pid=2809
Price:
Free: USD 0.0
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