2024
October 2024: Prof. Norah E. Dunbar (University of California, Santa Barbara) explored nonverbal cues associated with deception, challenging common myths and providing a comprehensive overview of various analytical methods. Watch the talk.
Jeanette D'Arcy and Rebecca Harris presented at the European Communication Research and Education Association conference in Slovenia in Sept 2024. Jeanette presented findings from the project IT Reuse for Social Good, which was conducted in 2023 together with partner Good Things Foundation. You can read the report here: DOI: 10.17638/03179998. Rebecca presented findings from the above BA/Ofcom-funded project exploring digital inclusion and media literacy.
August 2024: Rebecca Harris and Professor Simeon Yates presented at a survey design workshop at Lloyds headquarters in London. This is part of an ongoing project where Rebecca is building a database of past digital inclusion survey questions, identifying trends and patterns which will be used to build future digital inclusion surveys. They will present an update on their progress in October 2024.
24-26th July 2024: Elena Musi was invited to give a talk at the International Conference at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach on “Artificial Stupidity” (Offenbach), title talk: “The importance of being a stochastic parrot”.
11 July 2024: Gianfranco Polizzi delivered a presentation titled Developing primary school children’s news literacy and civic engagement: Findings from the evaluation of NewsWise. The presentation was delivered, on invitation, at the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) conference, which was held in Birmingham, UK.
19 June 2024: Gianfranco Polizzi recorded a podcast, together with Emily Rempel (University of Liverpool) and Anthony McMullin (community researcher from the Round ‘Ere project) titled “Round ‘Ere: Engaging the public on designing community wellbeing data hubs” to talk about Round ‘Ere – a participatory research project exploring issues of wellbeing, participatory data governance and data literacy. The podcast can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUsxmFR_xl4
6 June 2024: Gianfranco Polizzi took part in a panel discussion titled “The fight against disinformation: why is it vital to democracy, and what does our research tell us?” organised the Guardian Foundation. This was held, during the Guardian Foundation annual event, at UCL in London.
May 2024: Professor Simeon Yates and Jeanette D'Arcy, building on work by Alex Hardy and Suzanne McLure, ran a workshop at the Digital Footprints conference at Bristol University exploring the utilisation of Lego to visualise and explore data access for research.
1 May 2024: Gianfranco Polizzi took part in a panel discussion titled “How to secure the provision of news literacy education in the UK and what it matters”, organised by the University of Central Lancashire, in partnership with the University of Liverpool, as part of the News Futures 2035 Public-Interest News Literacy Education workshop (1-2 May 2024) held in Preston, UK.
10 April 2024: Gianfranco Polizzi presented a paper at Ofcom (during one of their meetings organised as part their Making Sense of Media Evaluation working group) together with Tom Harrison (University of Birmingham), Shane McLoughlin (University of Birmingham) and Irene Picton (National Literacy Trust). The paper (titled Evaluating news literacy education: Drawing on the evaluation of NewsWise as an example) reported on key findings from the evaluation of NewsWise. The final NewsWise report can be found here.
18-19th March 2024: Elena Musi was invited as a speaker to the charity Cumberland Lodge to deliver the workshop on “Mis-Disinformation and Young People: Developing Strategies for Critical Media Literacy”
28-29th February 2024: Elena Musi was invited to talk at the “Towards Linguistically Motivated Computational Models of Framing” conference of the German Society for Linguistics. Talk titled: “Mining argumentative frames”
26-27th February 2024: Mariavittoria Masotina and Elena Musi presented the LATIF project at the EDMO Scientific Conference 2024
Throughout 2024, as part of the Smart Data Research UK Strategic Advice Team, Professor Simeon Yates, Elena Musi and Jeanette D'Arcy, together with colleagues from the University of Newcastle and the Alan Turing Institute, have run a series of Data Dives. The first was in April 2024 at the Digital Innovation Facility at the University of Liverpool in partnership with the Consumer Data Research Centre. The second was at Glasgow University in June 2024, in partnership with the Urban Big Data Centre. The third will take place at the Institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge University in October 2024, exploring resilience of supply chains data. Elena Musi blogged about the first data dive here: Getting smarter about smart data - Smart Data Research UK (ukri.org)
March 2024: Professor Simeon Yates, along with colleagues from Loughborough university and partner Good Things Foundation, launched the Minimum Digital Living Standard at an event in London, bringing together representatives from national and local government, civil society and industry. Information on the MDLS project can be found here: Minimum Digital Living – The UK's Digital needs for the 21st Century (mdls.org.uk)
5 February 2024: Gianfranco Polizzi delivered the opening presentation – together with Tom Harrison (University of Birmingham), Irene Picton (National Literacy Trust) and Shane McLoughlin (University of Birmingham) – titled Educating news literacy at the CPD conference Becoming NewsWise: Educating News Literacy organised by the Guardian Foundation and held in London, UK.
2023
Dec 2023: Gianfranco Polizzi and Jeanette D'Arcy presented findings from a project exploring policymakers' and civil society organisations' perspectives on challenges and best practice for media literacy at Ofcom's Making Sense of Media conference. There is a blog post about this project here: Challenges and best practice in media literacy provision: Key findings from five areas of the UK | Media@LSE
29-30th November 2023: Mariavittoria Masotina presented at the Dubrovnik Media Days 2023. When fact‐checks go viral: a cross‐national analysis of the dissemination of European fact‐checkers on Twitter
23 November 2023, Gianfranco Polizzi delivered a seminar presentation titled NewsWise: Developing UK primary school pupils’ news literacy skills at the Knowledge Lab at UCL, UK. Video recording available at https://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/eA28EAah
Oct 2023: Professor Simeon Yates, Jeanette D'Arcy, Gianfranco Polizzi, Rebecca Harris, and Frances Yeoman ran a workshop event in London bringing together policymakers and civil society organisations to discuss findings from a BA/Ofcom-funded project exploring perspectives on digital inclusion and media literacy provision in the UK. The report for the BA project can be found here: DOI: 10.17638/03181004
15th September 2023: Elena Musi was invited to give a lecture at the Arglab Research Colloquium, IFILNOVA (Lisbon); title Talk: “Leveraging Argumentation for Impartial Fact-checking”
August 2023: Rebecca Harris and Professor Simeon Yates presented at MeCCSA which was held at Glasgow Caledonian University. Rebecca presented findings from the teams MSPEC funded research which looked at survivors of modern day slavery and their digital inclusion: DOI: 10.1080/23322705.2024.2393969 and Professor Simeon Yates presented on the findings of the MDLS project.
11 July 2023, Gianfranco Polizzi presented a paper titled NewsWise: Developing UK primary school children’s news literacy skills at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Media Education Research Section, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.
4-7th July 2023: Elena Musi presented the paper When fact‐checks go viral: a cross‐national analysis of the dissemination of European fact‐checkers on Twitter at the ISSA conference
21-22nd March 2023: Elena Musi served as a consultant for the World Health Organization Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention Department, program: “WHO Technical Consultation on Building a Global University Curriculum for Infodemic Management” (Belgrade, Serbia)
2022
30 November 2022, Gianfranco Polizzi took part in a workshop titled “Cross-sector challenges for media Literacy in the UK” organised by the London School of Economics and Political Science as part of the Cross-Sectoral Challenges to Media Literacy project, commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT). The workshop took place at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
18-19th June 2022: Elena Musi was invited as an expert to participate in the AI and Communication at the Internet Governance Forum Italy, organized by the Council for the United States and Italy
6th June 2022: Elena Musi was invited to give a lecture at the "Fake News et al. Workshop on strategic information transmission” (Universidad de Alicante); title talk "From fact-checking to reason checking: Developing fake news immunity”
5 May 2022, Gianfranco Polizzi delivered a webinar presentation titled Digital and data literacy: Exploring how digital experts and civic advocates develop and deploy digital skills and knowledge within civic life as part of the UKLA Critical Literacies SIG Forum organised by the University of Glasgow, UK.
27-30th March 2022: Elena Musi was invited to give a lecture at the Dagstuhl Seminar 22131 "Framing in Communication: From Theories to Computation", title talk "Argumentative framing"
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