The Misinformation Edition' Exhibit Reception and Keynote Talk
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Faith Morrison
Oct 21, 2021, 9:58:36 AM10/21/21
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The Misinformation Edition' Exhibit Reception and Keynote Talk
Tech Today 10/21/2021
Tech Today 10/21/2021
by Stefka Hristova, Humanities
Join us for the opening reception of "The Misinformation Edition" exhibit, on display Monday (Oct. 25) until Nov. 1 in the Van Pelt and Opie Library.
The reception will be held Wednesday (Oct. 27) from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the library, and will feature a keynote talk by Joan Donovan on "The True Cost of Misinformation." Light refreshments will be served.
The talk will explore the ways in which social media companies are trying to patch the holes in a failing sociotechnical system, where the problems their products have created are now shouldered by journalists, universities and health professionals, just to name a few. It will further promote discussion about what can be done to restore moral and technical order in a time of pandemonium.
Donovan is the research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the director of the Technology and Social Change project (TaSC). She is a specialist in media manipulation, political movements, critical internet studies and online extremism. Her work explores how media manipulation is a means to control public conversation, derail democracy and disrupt society.
The talk will be broadcast at the Van Pelt and Opie Library and also hosted via Zoom.
This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by funding from the Department of Humanities at Michigan Tech.
Join us for the opening reception of "The Misinformation Edition" exhibit, on display Monday (Oct. 25) until Nov. 1 in the Van Pelt and Opie Library.
The reception will be held Wednesday (Oct. 27) from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the library, and will feature a keynote talk by Joan Donovan on "The True Cost of Misinformation." Light refreshments will be served.
The talk will explore the ways in which social media companies are trying to patch the holes in a failing sociotechnical system, where the problems their products have created are now shouldered by journalists, universities and health professionals, just to name a few. It will further promote discussion about what can be done to restore moral and technical order in a time of pandemonium.
Donovan is the research director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the director of the Technology and Social Change project (TaSC). She is a specialist in media manipulation, political movements, critical internet studies and online extremism. Her work explores how media manipulation is a means to control public conversation, derail democracy and disrupt society.
The talk will be broadcast at the Van Pelt and Opie Library and also hosted via Zoom.
This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Michigan Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by funding from the Department of Humanities at Michigan Tech.
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Erin Matas
Oct 22, 2021, 11:43:45 AM10/22/21
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Just an update to correct the end date of the Misinformation Exhibit - the exhibit runs from Oct. 25th through Nov. 21st in the Opie Reading Room.
Thanks,
Erin
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