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Innovations in Research: Confronting the Disinformation Age

2019, Summit Confronting the Disinformation Age, Media + Information

Research doesnt just live in libraries and academic papers; it has a profound impact on our day to day lives. Innovations in Research is a dynamic evening that showcases the 間眅埶AV researchers and innovators who are designing solutions to confront the disinformation age.

Hosted by Joy Johnson, Vice-President, Research and International at 間眅埶AV, this event features rapid-fire presentations, in-depth discussions, and interactive demonstrations by faculty, staff, students and alumni from across 間眅埶AVs faculties, departments, programs and campuses. Enjoy light refreshments as you move throughout the space, interacting with researchers and watching presentations from 間眅埶AVs remarkable research community.

Wed, 10 Apr 2019

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (PT)

500 Granville Street
Vancouver, B.C.

We respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the Unceded, Traditional, Ancestral Territories of the S廎硬x戔w繳7mesh, slilwta优, k妢ik妢m, and x妢m庛k妢ym First Nations.

About Confronting the Disinformation Age

間眅埶AV Public Squares 2019 Community Summit considered how the proliferation of disinformation is impacting society and challenging our capacity to make informed decisions about our economic, social, and political lives. Together, we co-created strategies to ensure stronger and healthier information ecosystems and stimulate more connected and resilient communities.

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The Disinformation Age
Information is fundamental to our existence. Without it, we cannot understand or effectively respond to the events that shape our world. Throughout history, campaigns to deliberately spread false information to influence public opinion or obscure the truth have been launched by individuals, organizations, and governments. But today, were living in a new age of information facilitated primarily by digital technology. These advancements offer us extraordinary access to facts and data but also allow for harmful, inaccurate, and manipulated information to be created and disseminated at an unprecedented speed, scope, and scale. Falsehoods are pitted against facts in competition for our attention and technology is used to exploit our cognitive functioning without repercussion. In what is being called the post-truth era, the distortion of our information landscape is eroding our trust in institutions, political systems, the media, and each other.

Host

Joy Johnson

Joy Johnson leads 間眅埶AVs strategic research initiatives and facilitates international opportunities that foster research collaborations and student exchange. Her work focuses on facilitating research excellence and helping the university respond to new opportunities. She works with members of 間眅埶AVs eight faculties to ensure they have the support and resources required to conduct excellent cutting-edge research in all its forms. Building on her long-standing leadership and research experience, she works with faculty, students and staff to secure research partnerships within the community and industry.

A key element of her role focuses on knowledge mobilization by facilitating opportunities to transfer the results of 間眅埶AV research to society. This collaborative role allows for an interplay between research and innovation to enhance social, economic, and environmental well-being.

Joy is a leader for the  initiative a university-wide strategy and action plan to inspire, develop, and support impact-driven innovation and entrepreneurship. As part of 間眅埶AVs commitment to innovation, she is responsible for developing initiatives that support students and faculty members to harness new ideas and innovations for the benefit of society.

Information about her past scholarly and leadership experiences can be obtained by accessing her CV.

Speakers

Juan Pablo Alperin, Michelle La, and Esteban Morales

Publishing Program, Assistant Professor

Is making knowledge public a part of a professors job?

Ahmed Al-Rawi

Professor, School of Communication

Fake news discourses on Instagram

Bakht Anwar

Undergraduate Student, Faculty of Health Sciences

Exploring the Perspectives of Health Sciences Regarding Refugee and Newcomer Health Needs

Micayla Bobsien

Undergraduate Student, Department of Political Sciences

The Medias Portrayal of Refugees and Irregular Border Crossings

Clint Burnham

Professor, Department of English

We don't know what we want when we are on the internet (and that's ok)

Emily Choma

Undergraduate Student, School of Criminology

Discussing Past Attacks or Planning New Ones? Evaluating Critical Infrastructure Discussions on Online Hacking and Extremist Forums

Henry Daniel

Professor, School for the Contemporary Arts

From the Other Side

Heather De Forest & Ali Moore

Research Commons, Research Commons Librarian/Community Scholars Librarian

Confronting Disinformation with Public Access to Research

Jenika Ebing

Undergraduate Student, School of Communication

Confronting misinformation in chronic health support groups on social media - and a proposed, local solution.

Magali Forte & Gw矇na禱lle Andr矇

Ph.D. Candidates, Languages, Cultures and Literacies Program

Digital story creation with Scribjab: human and material encounters

Sun-ha Hong

Professor, School of Communication

Fake news for fake pills: Disinformation beyond politics, and its historical roots

Kayli Jamieson

Undergraduate Student, School of Communication

Algorithms in the Age of the Digital Public Sphere: Filter-Bubbles and Disinformation

Aliya Kazmi

Undergraduate Student, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Power as Revelatory: Challenging the Idea That Power Corrupts In Shakespeares Measure for Measure

Akira Kojima, Rielle Harding, Nick Shum, Ann Ness

Undergraduate Students, Semester in Dialogue

Dr. Google

Esteban Morales

Master Student, Faculty of Education

Data literacy in a peace education course, an opportunity to address disinformation in Colombia

Mark Pickup

Professor, Department of Political Science

Political Opinion Leaders and Normative Change: A Trump Effect across the Canada/US Border?

Kamyar Razavi

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Communication

Journalism for climate solutions: Rethinking standard approaches to climate change reporting.

Daniel Savas

Professor, School of Public Policy & 間眅埶AV Centre for Dialogue

Disinformation, Trust & Commitment to Democracy: The Case for Building Social Connections

Maite Taboada

Professor, Department of Linguistics

Using computational linguistics to detect fake news

Eileen Van der Flier-Keller

Professor, Faculty of Science

Beyond the ivory tower: Empowering our students to communicate their science to public audience

Donna Yung

Senior Research Assistant, Children's Health Policy Centre

Confronting disinformation to improve children's mental health

Naomi Zakimi

Graduate Student, Department of Criminology

Right-wing extremism online: Are we part of the problem?

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