[Air-L] Online Workshop: Beyond Fake News: Mitigating the Spread of Epistemically Toxic Content (April 21-22)

[Aviv Barnoy]

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

Registration here: 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 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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Aviv Barnoy, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Community Information Systems,
Zefat Academic College & Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa
M: +972528748969

*Check out my latest publications <http://avivbarnoy.com>:*
The Visual Boundaries of Journalism: Native advertising and the convergence
of editorial and commercial content
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2020.1836980> (Digital
Journalism) / Trusting Others: A Pareto distribution of source and message
credibility among news reporters
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0093650220911814> (Communication
Research) / How News Become “News” in Increasingly Complex Ecosystems
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1716830> (Journalism
studies) / The When, Why, How and So-what of Verifications
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1461670X.2019.1593881> (Journalism
studies).
*Hebrew:* ריאיון בגלובס על תוכן רעיל ופייק-ניוז
<https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001354527> / מאמר בעין
השביעית על תוכן שיווקי <https://www.the7eye.org.il/399815> / ראיון בגלי צה"ל
<https://bit.ly/37SW2mZ>