The Citizen Science Hub of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki in cooperation with the Data and Web Science Laboratory of AUTH (Datalab) co-organizes with the Directorates of primary education in Pella, Eastern Thessaloniki, Western Thessaloniki, Western Attica, and with the Directorates of secondary education in Pella, Eastern Thessaloniki, Western Thessaloniki through the Heads of School Activities, Health Education and Cultural Affairs, a webinar on: “fact or fake? Disinformation in digital social networks”.
The seminar will take place online on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, from 18:00-20:00. It is primarily addressed to teachers, but is open to the general public upon registration. The purpose of the webinar is to present to the educational community the problem of disinformation, as it appears in digital social networks.
Disinformation through digital social networks is a recent but crucial problem emerging in our society. Its importance is highlighted by the influence such content has on social, economic, health and political issues. The purpose of this webinar is to inform the teachers, but also the rest of the citizens, about the problem and the phenomena resulting from it so that they are able to offer the relevant education to their students.
The Citizen Science Hub of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki has been established on June 2022 in the context of the H2020 European project INCENTIVE (https://incentive-project.eu), under the scientific coordination of the Vice Rector for Research and Lifelong Learning Professor Efstratios Stylianidis to employ research for and with the citizens, through continuous collaboration for the production of results. Thus, this seminar aims at the the collaborative development and production of research between the researchers of the Citizen Science Hub of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the teachers of the above DIPE regarding disinformation in digital social networks. It includes the precise definition of the problem, its consequences for society and the presentation – familiarization with digital tools developed by the Data and Web Science Lab (DataLab), which could participate in identifying and analyzing the problem.
The keynote of the webinar will be Prof. Athena Vakali, founding member of the Citizen Science Hub of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Professor of the Informatics Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Director of the Data and Web Science Lab (DataLab).
Interested parties are requested to complete the online form by Sunday, April 2, 2023 by 12:00PM via the link:
https://survey.auth.gr/index.php/619645?newtest=Y&lang=el
Then, they will be informed of their participation and the follow-up link in the email they will indicate in the online form.
This webinar is followed by an additional event, which will be realized in the following months. Certifications of attendance will be provided to the people that will attend both events.