2021: Building Teenagers' Media Immunity

How to deliver digital literacy to teenagers, based on Jung’s non-fiction book “Media Literacy for AI-friendly Teens,” inspired by observations of his own daughter.

Speaker:

Jae-Min Jung, KAIST

2021: Engaging the Medical Community as Factcheckers

How should journalists and fact-checkers work with the medical community? If doctors are pro-vaccine, can they be “neutral” on the issue of vaccines? Journalists need to thread the fine line of objectivity, but in times of a health emergency, how does one practice neutrality?

Speakers:

Jisha Krishnan, FirstCheck - Dataleads

Dr. Takahiro Kinoshita, Cov-Navi

Joon-il Kim, NewsToF

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

2021: Cluster based analysis of anti-vaccine disinformation on Twitter

On Japanese Twitter, nearly half of anti-vaccine mass hoaxes spread can be traced back to 29 influencers. By contrast, only four influencers corrected hoaxes.

Speaker:

Fujio Toriumi, University of Tokyo