IEEE TEMS/LMAG: “Misinformation and Social Media as a Historical Process” (DigHum-Series)

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We are pleased to invite you to our next talk in our Lecture Series – again together with the Austrian IEEE Life Member Affinity Group!
Tuesday, February 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Time (UTC+1)
Topic: “Misinformation and Social Media as a Historical Process: Insights from the American Experience”
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Speaker: James W. Cortada (Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, USA)
Moderator: Susan Winter (University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, USA)
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With this lecture announcement, I would also like to say goodbye to you all as chairman of the steering committee of the digital humanism initiative. I still remember how we started in 2019, it was a long and short journey at the same time. We have achieved a lot – including some institutionalization with our non-profit association. This is the right time to pass the “torch” of the chairmanship to a younger person. I thank Stefan Woltran (Prof for AI at TU Vienna) for agreeing to take over the chairmanship – he will do a great job, I wish him all the best. Finally, our two books (Perspectives on Digital Humanism and Introduction to Digital Humanism, both with Springer) have reached over 1.160.000 downloads Thank you all for supporting our common idea – digital humanism. Let us be optimistic and follow Popper: optimism is a duty – there is no alternative.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
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ABSTRACT “Misinformation and Social Media as a Historical Process: Insights from the American Experience”:
This presentation discusses the nature of false or misinformation in U.S. social media. Social media is today widely used by the American public as a major component of its use of the Internet as a whole. It is argued that these collections of facts are similar to those that have existed for over 200 years in this country. The problem of such information is serious, its characteristics are described, and how it is (or should be) dealt with concludes the presentation.
Co-sponsored by: DIGHUM
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/465391

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