Date & time
Monday, April 29, 2024 –
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Conferences & lectures
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Disinformation
Creation, Dissemination and Pedagogical Responses
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Disinformation is the cognitive, political, and social plague of the 21st century. Its prevalence and in/visibility, with lightning-fast images, memes, and stories, regardless of verity thanks to social media algorithms, AI, and verbal gamesmanship, is witnessed in the flood of (mis)representations of the catastrophic events in Israel/Gaza, the 2024 USA Presidential election, and rising Hindu nationalism in India that exposes religious minorities to unspeakable violence. The explosion of maliciously fabricated content has spurred specialists in scientific and humanistic disciplines (Information Studies, Media Studies, Library Studies, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Education) to identify, analyze, and disrupt disinformation.
What has been missing is a common space for sharing and refining approaches to research and scholarship in disinformation with concrete pedagogical strategies for combatting it. Join us for an interdisciplinary two-day series of events of academic conversations, pedagogical workshops, film screenings, and art-based performances where these thorny issues will be tackled from multiple perspectives.
The goal is to engage participants in critical methods to combat disinformation and equip teachers and professors with pedagogical methodologies and tools to cultivate students' media and reality literacy.
See full tentative schedule below:
| April 29 | |
|---|---|
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Keynote: How to Combat the Spread of Mis- and Disinformation? |
| 11:00am - 11:15am | Break |
| 11:15am - 12:45pm | Panel: Creation and Dissemination of Disinformation in Social and Traditional Media |
| 12:45pm - 1:15pm | Lunch |
| 1:15pm - 3:30pm | Panel: Relation entre la désinformation et le radicalisme et l'extrémisme politiques |
| 3:30pm - 3:45pm | Break |
| 3:45pm - 5:00pm | Panel: Mis- and Disinformation in Media and Journalism in the Canadian Context |
| 5:00pm - 5:45pm | Break |
| 5:45pm | Film Screening at the DèSeve Cinema |
| April 30 | |
| 10:00am - 11:15am | Panel: Bridging Borders and Uniting Practices |
| 11:15am - 11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Workshop: How to teach the skills needed for students to handle disinformation |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm - 3:15pm | Workshop: How to present difficult subjects in the classroom |
| 3:15pm - 3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30pm - 4:15pm | Workshop: Whole body / Dance |
| 4:15pm - 4:30pm | Break |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm | Panel: Final Reflections on Teaching Disinformation in the Classroom |
| 7:00pm | NOCHE GIROVAGA at La Sala Rossa |
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca