HOW TO SURVIVE WITHIN THE INFORMATION FLOOD AROUND COVID-19
MAY 25, 2021
Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague
The conference is organized via ZOOM platform. To connect follow instructions here.
WELCOME REMARKS
10:00 – 10:15
Václav Moravec (Director of Center of Artificial Intelligence Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
Petr Konvalinka (Chairman of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic)
Alice Němcová Tejkalová (Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 1
10:15 – 10:45, Chair: Filip Láb (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
Petr Ludwig (#Masks4All)
“Disinformation in the coronavirus era and critical thinking as a defense”
MORNING SESSION
10:45 – 12:00
Each presenter will have 12 minutes. Discussion will follow after all presentations at the end of panel.
Chair: Filip Láb (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
Thomas Siomos (Political Sciences Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
“Crisis Theory: dislocation, mourning and the recollection of normativity”
Alice Němcová Tejkalová, Veronika Macková, Victoria Nainová (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
“On the wave of fear, negativity and disinformation (Case study of two disinformation websitesʼ communication on Facebook)”
Ivan Vodochodský (Newton Media)
“Quantitative media analysis and COVID-19: Myths and facts about coronavirus vaccination”
Anoop Kumar (Department of Culture and Media Studies, Central University of Rajasthan)
“Navigating through COVID-19 infodemic and disinfodemic: Surviving with the help of fact-checking, MIL approach and technology based solutions”
LUNCH BREAK
12:00 – 13:00
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 2
13:00 – 13:30, Chair: Alice Němcová Tejkalová (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
Laďka Mortkowitz (AFP)
“Fact-checking at AFP: Harnessing the power of a global news agency”
AFTERNOON SESSION
13:30 – 14:45
Each presenter will have 12 minutes. Discussion will follow after all presentations at the end of panel.
Chair: Alice Němcová Tejkalová (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
Martin Komenda, Daniel Klimeš, Ondřej Májek, Jiří Jarkovský, Jan Mužík, Milan Blaha, Jakub Gregor, Ladislav Dušek (Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic)
“Data sharing system describing the COVID-19 epidemic in the Czech Republic”
Radek Mařík (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
COVID-19 corpus: characteristics of the news their preprocessing
Maia Toradze, Liana Markariani (Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, IvaneJavakhishvili Tbilisi State University)
“Indicators and Specifics of Fake Websites (The Case of Georgia)”
Arif Hussain Nadaf (Department of Journalism & Mass Communication Islamic University of Science & Technology, Kashmir, India)
“Covid-19 infodemic in India: A practical framework to limit the deluge of misinformation around the virus”
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 3
14:45 – 15:15, Chair: Veronika Macková (Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)
Stavros Vologiannidis (Co-Founder of DataScouting, International Hellenic University)
Sophia Karakeva (Communications and Marketing Executive, DataScouting)
“A data driven approach to countering hate speech”
CONCLUDING REMARKS
15:15 – 15:30
Václav Moravec (Director of Center of Artificial Intelligence Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague)