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Detecting the “Fake News” Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

Oct. 3, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.

Given the recent proliferation of disinformation online, there has been growing research interest in automatically debunking rumors, false claims, and "fake news." A number of fact-checking initiatives have been launched so far, both manual and automatic, but the whole enterprise remains in a state of crisis: by the time a claim is finally fact-checked, it could have reached millions of users, and the harm caused could hardly be undone.

Event tags: Good Systems Speaker Series, Good Systems

Nike: History of Disability Inclusion and Innovation

June 30, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.

Part of the Good Systems Speaker Series. Nike has a long history of disability inclusion including supporting disabled athletes, hiring people with disabilities, and inventing cutting-edge adaptive clothing.

Event tags: Good Systems

Good System Speaker Series: Ethics and Responsible Innovation in Data-Intensive Smart Cities and Urban Mobility Management

June 30, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.

Data and information technology have transformed our daily lives and have reshaped the ways in which cities and transportation systems are governed and operated. But too often, urban and mobility analytics is couched narrowly in terms of resource optimization and management on the one hand, and privacy and surveillance on the other.

Event tags: Good Systems

Analyzing social media from a user-eye view with PIEGraph

June 1, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.

Quantitative social media research has traditionally been conducted from what might be called a platform-centric view, wherein researchers sample, collect, and analyzed data based on one or more topic- or user-specific keywords.

Event tags: Good Systems