[acc-cca-l] Mis/disinformation and the question of authenticity: Digital Policy Rounds

[Digital Democracies Institute Communications]

[△EXTERNAL]



Dear colleagues,


This is an invitation to the upcoming Digital Policy Rounds, a series of panels that puts experts within academia, civil society and communities in conversation, and this month the topic is mis/disinformation and the question of authenticity. Join us on Thursday, March 16 from 9 PST / 12 noon EST. Register here<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/digital-policy-rounds-misdisinformation-and-the-question-of-authenticity-tickets-530757478907>, and please share within your networks.


This panel seeks to surface the cultural dimensions of mis- and dis-information through the lens of authenticity: how claims to truthfulness and facticity are recognized as believable by communities, and so how those claims are authenticated as truth or facts. Our panelists will discuss the historical, technological, and political aspects of claiming access to an authentic reality, and how addressing mis- and dis-information through policy requires engaging culturally with those claims.

Panelists:

Dr. Elisha Lim is a Provosts' Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice and part of Canada's Initiative for Digital Citizen Research.


Christina de Castell is chief librarian & CEO at Vancouver Public Library, and has held roles bridging technology, collections, research and public service in her more than twenty years as a librarian.


Sarah Nguyễn is a PhD student at the University of Washington's Information School. Sarah investigates information infrastructures & information disorder among immigrant diaspora and non-English communities.

Divyani Motla is a PhD Candidate at the Department of History, University of Toronto; also affiliated with the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies.

Host:

Supriya Dwivedi is the Director of Policy & Engagement at McGill's Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy.

[cid:d793f14f-7f04-4c53-8c3e-191e81217298]


This series is organized in partnership with the Digital Democracies Institute at SFU; the University of British Columbia’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions<https://democracy.ubc.ca/>; the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy <https://www.mediatechdemocracy.com/> at McGill University; Toronto Metropolitan University’s Leadership Lab<https://www.ryersonleadlab.com/>; and the <https://cippic.ca/> Centre for Law, Technology and Society<https://techlaw.uottawa.ca/> at the University of Ottawa.

All best,


Kayla Hilstob

Researcher, Communications Manager |

Digital Democracies Institute | School of Communication
Simon Fraser University | TASC 2 Room 7460
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6
| Website<https://digitaldemocracies.org/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/SFUDDG/> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/sfu_ddg?lang=en>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/acc-cca-l/attachments/20230314/3dcbf6f4/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: pastedImage.png
Type: image/png
Size: 230307 bytes
Desc: pastedImage.png
URL: <https://mailman.ucalgary.ca/pipermail/acc-cca-l/attachments/20230314/3dcbf6f4/attachment.png>