We Need to Talk about... 2020

We Need to Talk about... COVID-19, the Media and Fake News

Gianluca Demartini, Axel Bruns, and Caroline Wilson-Barnao

• 24 June 2020 – We Need to Talk about... seminar series, online

Social media is so prevalent in our lives, it provides us with of-the-moment news and a soapbox for us to share our views and opinions. Who decides on the content that we see? Between algorithms, machine learning and human-in-the-loop is what we see as news fact checked? How can we tell what is real and what is fake news? Join UQ School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini and QUT Digital Media Research Centre’s Professor Axel Bruns for an informal discussion on news curation, the power of social media and the public sphere. Chaired by UQ School of Communication and Arts’ Dr Caroline Wilson-Barnao.

 

Video of the Seminar

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