What do we know about disinformation and what can be done about it? Are proposed cures sometimes worse than the actual diseases at hand? Or are we critically underestimating the scale of the problem a...
Farida Vis
Farida Vis is Director of the Visual Social Media Lab (VSML), which brings together a group of interdisciplinary researchers from academia and industry interested in analyzing social media images. She is Professor of Digital Media at the Manchester School of Art. Taking seriously the need to engage beyond academia, she sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Information and Entertainment. The VSML is part of First Draft’s Academic Partner Network and is working on a number of collaborative projects on mis/disinformation focused on images.
In continuation from the conversation at #IJF17, this panel will look more concretely at the role of memes and online visual culture in our information ecosystem, and why it's important for journalist...
2016 was a year of memes in Western politics, from #CatsAgainstBrexit to Pepe the Frog to #NastyWomen, as meme shells, GIFs and selfies enter the political vernacular. Love them or hate them, internet...
Mainstream, online news and social media alike have been replete with images of refugees since last summer. Images of people continuously on the move; marching through the countryside (on their way ...
Collect, verify and analyse data for better conflict and disaster reporting. Today's technology allows us to gather and investigate on the ground reports of conflict and disasters without physically e...
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