Mε στόχο την προαγωγή της γνώσης στον τομέα του ICT - governance, διοργανώνεται στο Καρλόβασι της Σάμου (Samaina Inn Hotel) το 6º Διεθνές Summer School- ‘opengov2019’- Technologies and Applications for Government 3.0, από 1-5 Ιουλίου 2019, με επίκεντρο τις νέες τεχνολογίες και τις προκλήσεις που αυτές φέρουν στην Διακυβέρνηση και στην Δημοκρατία.
Για την υλοποίήσή του, συνεργάζονται το Πανεπιστήμιο του Αιγαίου στο οποίο ανήκει η πρωτοβουλία (Εργαστήριο Πληροφορικής), το European Communication Institute (ECI) και ευθέως εκ των συνιστώντων φορέων του Ινστιτούτου, το Αυστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο DUK, (τμήμα E- Governance) ενώ υποστηρίζεται από πολλούς ευρωπαϊκούς φορείς, μεταξύ των οποίων το United Nations University, University of Agder, TUDelft και άλλοι.
Στην επιστημονική- οργανωτική επιτροπή μετέχουν, διακεκριμένα στελέχη του ECI, (Γιώργος Καμπουράκης, Μάριος Νόττας, Γιώργος Μανωλάκος) καθώς και επιστήμονες του Πανεπιστημίου DUK, ο κ. Thomas Lampoltshammer και η κα Gabriela Viale Pereira.
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες εδώ
Δύο σημαντικές διακρίσεις για την επικεφαλής του Εργαστήριου Γλωσσικής Τεχνολογίας JCL (Journalism Computational Linguistics Lab) καθηγήτρια δρ. Χριστίνα Αλεξανδρή.
Πρόκειται για δημοσίευση που ψηφίστηκε ως "Best Presentation" από τους συμμετέχοντες σε συνέδριο στο Πανεπιστήμιο Stanford (AAAI Spring Symposium, Session: Beyond Machine Intelligence: Understanding Cognitive Bias and Humanity for Well - Being AI): "Measuring Cognitive Bias in Spoken Interaction and Conversation: Generating Visual Representations".
Επιπλέον με τη δημοσίευση “ Multilingual Aspects of Complex Information Transfer and Information Processing in Transcribed Spoke in Journalistic Texts”, η κ. Αλεξανδρή προσκλήθηκε ως κύρια ομιλήτρια (Keynote Speaker) μεταξύ των έξι κύριων ομιλητών (University of Cambridge UK, European Commission Brussels, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kyung Hee University, Seoul South Korea, University of Trieste, Italy) σε παγκόσμιο συνέδριο στη Μόσχα τον Μάιο 2018(Society and Languages in the Third Millenium: Communication Education Translation Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow).
Δύο σημαντικές διακρίσεις για την επικεφαλής του Εργαστήριου Γλωσσικής Τεχνολογίας JCL (Journalism Computational Linguistics Lab) καθηγήτρια δρ. Χριστίνα Αλεξανδρή.
Πρόκειται για δημοσίευση που ψηφίστηκε ως "Best Presentation" από τους συμμετέχοντες σε συνέδριο στο Πανεπιστήμιο Stanford (AAAI Spring Symposium, Session: Beyond Machine Intelligence: Understanding Cognitive Bias and Humanity for Well - Being AI): "Measuring Cognitive Bias in Spoken Interaction and Conversation: Generating Visual Representations".
Επιπλέον με τη δημοσίευση “ Multilingual Aspects of Complex Information Transfer and Information Processing in Transcribed Spoke in Journalistic Texts”, η κ. Αλεξανδρή προσκλήθηκε ως κύρια ομιλήτρια (Keynote Speaker) μεταξύ των έξι κύριων ομιλητών (University of Cambridge UK, European Commission Brussels, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kyung Hee University, Seoul South Korea, University of Trieste, Italy) σε παγκόσμιο συνέδριο στη Μόσχα τον Μάιο 2018(Society and Languages in the Third Millenium: Communication Education Translation Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow).
Πρόγραμμα Συνεχιζόμενης εκπαίδευσης ECI
Το περασμένο Σαββατοκύριακο, ξεκίνησε το πρόγραμμα Συνεχιζόμενης Εκπαίδευσης (Continuing education) για τους πτυχιούχους του ECI, με πολλά και ενδιαφέροντα εργαστηριακά μαθήματα.
Ο διδάσκων κ. Παναγιώτης Αποσπόρης. ξεκίνησε μια σειρά εργαστηρίων γύρω από το Web Development και το Wordpress. O Δρ. κ. Γιώργος Μανωλάκος ξεκίνησε σειρά διαλέξεων με τίτλο News Content Analysis: Attention Indices on Sudden Events of International Concern, όπου θα αναλυθούν, επικοινωνιακά, οι περιπτώσεις: Princess Diana, 11η Σεπτεμβρίου, Τρομοκρατία- ISIS και η πρόσφατη καταστροφή της Παναγίας των Παρισίων.
Επίσης, σε αυτό το module πραγματοποιήθηκαν τρεις ξεχωριστές διαλέξεις. Πρώτον, το συνεχιζόμενο μάθημα του θεατρολόγου κ. Πάρι Μέξη για το Copywriting. Δεύτερον, το εργαστήριο Γλωσσικής Γραφής (Language Lab) του δημοσιογράφου/ speaker of the House, κ. Νίκου Ξυδάκη. Ενώ τέλος, έγινε σύνδεση, μέσω skype, με τον media expert που δραστηριοποιείται στο Λονδίνο, κ. Νικόλαο Κόκκινο, o οποίος μίλησε για το Branding στην εποχή των digital media,αναλύοντας περιπτώσεις Obama, Selena Gomez, Ferrari, Singapure Airlines και ολοκληρώνοντας με την περίπτωση Brand: Ελλάδα.
Πηγή: NiemanLab
A cognitive scientist explains why humans are so susceptible to fake news and misinformation
By Julian Matthews1
How fake news gets into our minds, and what you can do to resist it.
Although the term itself is not new, fake news presents a growing threat for societies across the world. Only a small amount of fake news is needed to disrupt a conversation, and at extremes it can have an impact on democratic processes, including elections.
But what can we do to avoid fake news, at a time when we could be waiting a while for mainstream media and social networks to step up and address the problem?
From a psychology perspective, an important step in tackling fake news is to understand why it gets into our mind. We can do this by examining how memory works and how memories become distorted. Using this viewpoint generates some tips you can use to work out whether you’re reading or sharing fake news.
How memory gets distorted at the source
Fake news often relies on misattribution — instances in which we can retrieve things from memory but can’t remember their source. Misattribution is one of the reasons advertising is so effective. We see a product and feel a pleasant sense of familiarity because we’ve encountered it before, but fail to remember that the source of the memory was an ad.
One study examined headlines from fake news published during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The researchers found even a single presentation of a headline (such as “Donald Trump Sent His Own Plane to Transport 200 Stranded Marines,” based on claims shown to be false) was enough to increase belief in its content. This effect persisted for at least a week, and it was still found when headlines were accompanied by a fact-check warning or even when participants suspected it might be false.
Repeated exposure can increase the sense that misinformation is true. Repetition creates the perception of group consensus that can result in collective misremembering, a phenomenon called the Mandela Effect.
It might be harmless when people collectively misremember something fun, such as a childhood cartoon (did the Queen in Disney’s Snow Whitereally not say “Mirror, mirror”?). But it has serious consequences when a false sense of group consensus contributes to rising outbreaks of measles.
Scientists have investigated whether targeted misinformation can promote healthy behavior. Dubbed false-memory diets, it is said that false memories of food experiences can encourage people to avoid fatty foods, alcohol, and even convince them to love asparagus.
Creative people that have a strong ability to associate different words are especially susceptible to false memories. Some people might be more vulnerable than others to believe fake news, but everyone is at risk.
How bias can reinforce fake news
Bias is how our feelings and worldview affect the encoding and retrieval of memory. We might like to think of our memory as an archivist that carefully preserves events, but sometimes it’s more like a storyteller. Memories are shaped by our beliefs and can function to maintain a consistent narrative rather than an accurate record.
An example of this is selective exposure, our tendency to seek information that reinforces our pre-existing beliefs and to avoid information that brings those beliefs into question. This effect is supported by evidence that television news audiences are disproportionately partisan and can exist in their own echo chambers. It was thought that online communities exhibit the same behavior, contributing to the spread of fake news, but this appears to be a myth. Political news sites are often populated by people with diverse ideological backgrounds and echo chambers are more likely to exist in real life than online.
Our brains are wired to assume things we believe originated from a credible source. But are we more inclined to remember information that reinforces our beliefs? This is probably not the case. People who hold strong beliefs remember things that are relevant to their beliefs, but they remember opposing information too. This happens because people are motivated to defend their beliefs against opposing views.
Belief echoes are a related phenomenon that highlight the difficulty of correcting misinformation. Fake news is often designed to be attention-grabbing. It can continue to shape people’s attitudes after it has been discredited because it produces a vivid emotional reaction and builds on our existing narratives. Corrections have a much smaller emotional impact, especially if they require policy details, so should be designed to satisfy a similar narrative urge to be effective.
Tips for resisting fake news
The way our memory works means it might be impossible to resist fake news completely. But one approach is to start thinking like a scientist. This involves adopting a questioning attitude that is motivated by curiosity and being aware of personal bias.
For fake news, this might involve asking ourselves the following questions:
What type of content is this? Many people rely on social media and aggregators as their main source of news. By reflecting on whether information is news, opinion, or even humor, this can help consolidate information more completely into memory.
Where is it published? Paying attention to where information is published is crucial for encoding the source of information into memory. If something is a big deal, a wide variety of sources will discuss it, so attending to this detail is important.
Who benefits? Reflecting on who benefits from you believing the content helps consolidate the source of that information into memory. It can also help us reflect on our own interests and whether our personal biases are at play.
Some people tend to be more susceptible to fake news because they are more accepting of weak claims. But we can strive to be more reflective in our open-mindedness by paying attention to the source of information, and questioning our own knowledge if and when we are unable to remember the context of our memories.
1. Julian Matthews is a research officer at the Cognitive Neurology Lab of Monash University who studies the relationship between metacognition, consciousness, and related cognitive processes.