Disinformation has become ubiquitous in the era of the Internet. The coronavirus pandemic, as a global disruptive event, has created favorable conditions for proliferation of fake news. This poses a potential threat to national and global security. The online conference, co-organized by
SWPS University’s Department of Journalism and Communication and
Akademia Sztuki Wojennej (War Studies University) in Warsaw, will take a closer look at the challenges and issues posed by disinformation in the era of a global pandemic. The conference has been organized under the auspices of
Demagog, a fact checking organization.
Cybersecurity Threats – COVID-19 and Disinformation
Organizers: Department of Journalism and Communication, SWPS University
Akademia Sztuki Wojennej
Disinformation has become ubiquitous in the era of the Internet. The coronavirus pandemic, as a global disruptive event, has created favorable conditions for proliferation of fake news. This poses a potential threat to national and global security. The online conference, co-organized by SWPS University’s Department of Journalism and Communication and Akademia Sztuki Wojennej (War Studies University) in Warsaw, will take a closer look at the challenges and issues posed by disinformation in the era of a global pandemic. The conference has been organized under the auspices of Demagog, a fact checking organization.
Free participation
Language of the event: English
April 14, 2021
9:00 - 16:30 CEST (UTC+2)
online
Focus of the Conference
During the conference, experts from around the world will discuss issues related to the following thematic areas:
- disinformation – a contemporary challenge for the national and international security
- forms and methods of disinformation and other elements of hybrid threats
- the international aspect: the scope and assessment of threats for the global peace during the pandemic
- countermeasures for the contemporary disinformation, propaganda, enemy information activities, and other hybrid threats
- consequences of contemporary disinformation and other hybrid (e.g. COVID-19) threats
- COVID-19 – enforcing the information and opinion-shaping functions of contemporary media – between populism and manipulation
- social resilience of societies against disinformation and other elements of hybrid activities during the pandemic.
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Selected Lectures
- Francesco Pira, prof. (Italy, University of Messina), Generation App: My Life in CovidTimes. A Web Based Survey (April – May 2020. 1858 Italian Students from 12 – 18 years old). 2.
- Karina Stasiuk-Krajewska, prof. (SWPS University), The media discourse of COVID19 pandemic. Main contexts, threads and metaphors (qualitative and quantitative analysis)
- Nicola Strizzolo, prof., Claudio Melchior, prof. (University of Udine, Italy), Debunker: the new entrepreneurs of truth.
- Michał Chlebowski, PhD (SWPS University), How journalists' ethics and standards can help fight mis- and disinformation? A case study of COVID-19.
- Uros Pinteric, prof. (Slovakia, Alexander Dubcek University in Trencin), Government information manipulation as a threat to national security in the case of COVID19 in Slovenia.
- Simone Tosoni, prof. (Catholic University of Milan), Paolo Bory, PhD (Milan University of Technology), Paolo Giardullo, PhD (University of Padova), Valentina Turrini, PhD (Catholic University of Milan), The Catalysts of Scientific Dissent: The Rise of Scientific Populism in Italy During the Pandemic Crisis.
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Event under the auspices of
Demagog – a fact checking organization
Organizers
Date and Location
April 14, 2021
online
Contact
Akademia Sztuki Wojennej (War Studies University)
Tel: +48 261 814 047
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