A great free Virtual Lecture Series organised jointly by four IFLA sections: News Media, Digital Humanities, FAIFE, and Copyright/Legal Matters with the theme of Fake News: Impact on Society
Lecture 1 is on 30 October 2020 at 4pm Central European time (which is, e.g., 3pm UK time, 10am US Eastern time). Presenters are Phillip Russell, ‘Stop, Think, Check’: Ireland’s Be Media Smart Campaign and Giuseppe Vitiello, Assessing the Promotion of Freedom of Expression and Free Access to Information in Libraries: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.10 through the EBLIDA-NewsGuard partnership
Lecture 2 is on 18 November 2020, at 5pm Central European time. Presenters are Abby Moore & Catherine Tingelstad, Nuanced Literacy and Fake News: Academic Librarians’ Role in New Information Environments and Enrica Manenti, 'Handle with Double Care.' Memorial Sites, Teens, Libraries and Wikipedia
Lecture 3 is on 21 January 2021, at 5pm Central European time. Presenters are Katharina Beckh & Vishwani Gupta, Supporting Verification of News Articles with Machine Learning Methods: Automated Search for Semantically Similar Articles and Katherine E. Boss, April Hines, Jeffrey Knapp, et. al., 'It would be horrible if I printed something that wasn't true': Examining the Research Behaviors of Journalism Students
Lecture 4 is on 8 February 2021 at 4pm Central European time. Presenters are Damien Wang & Sara Pek, Strengthening Information Literacy in the Time of COVID-19: The Role and Contributions of the National Library of Singapore and Victor Mutyev, News Analytics in LIS Education and Practice
Go to https://www.ifla.org/news-media/conferences where there are links to register for each seminar
Photo by Sheila Webber, roses, September 2020
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