Seminar Series

2024-2025

15.00 - 16.00 UK time

Overview

Through this series of seminars we aim to initiate conversations between academics and practitioners around our themes of focus. Our seminars happen on Thursdays at the frequency of around once a month. If you are interested in receiving updates and links to the monthly talks please join our mailing list.

We include talk from researchers at different career stages, as well as industry professionals.

Our three themes of focus for 2024 are:

  1. Explainable and evidence-based misinformation detection
  2. Generative AI and misinformation
  3. Multimodal verification

Technical research areas include:

  1. Natural Language Processing
  2. Deep Learning
  3. Social Network Dynamics
  4. Computer Vision
  5. Cognitive Psychology
  6. Mass Communication Studies


Invited Speakers

Dr. Timo Spinde Media Bias Group, University of Göttingen Martin Wessel CDTM, Technical University of Munich
5th of December 2024 @ 15.00- 16.00 GMT

Automatically Detecting Media Bias: Interdisciplinary Insights and Advances [recording,slides]

Malvina Bozhidarova PhD Student | University of Nottingham Jonathan Chang PhD Student | Cornell University
31st of October 2024 @ 15.00- 16.00 GMT

Hate speech and hate crimes: a data-driven study of evolving discourse around marginalized groups [recording]

Alexandre Bovet Assistant Professor | University of Zurich
3rd of October 2024 @ 15.00- 16.00 BST

Misinformation, Media Influencers and Fact-checking

Organizers

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Talia
Tseriotou
Queen Mary University
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Dina
Pisarevskaya
Queen Mary University
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Yueting
Han
University of Warwick
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Michael
Schlichtkrull
Queen Mary University
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Marya
Bazzi
Alan Turing Institute, University of Warwick
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Maria
Liakata
Alan Turing Institute, Queen Mary University
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Arkaitz
Zubiaga
Queen Mary University