En cette année de reprise en présentiel, le séminaire d’Engage visera à appuyer et prolonger les travaux de ses membres lors de moments d’échanges et de rencontres ouverts à toutes les personnes intéressées. À partir d’interventions de chercheurs et chercheuses pour la plupart externes à l’Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, il s’agira de nourrir les réflexions du centre en les élargissant à d’autres horizons de recherche. Les thématiques abordées seront dès lors variées tout en s’inscrivant dans les axes de recherche du centre. Chaque séance consistera en une ou plusieurs intervention(s) en lien avec la thématique retenue que nous prolongerons grâce à des échanges soutenus par un cadre que nous souhaitons tant stimulant que bienveillant. Un moment de détente sous forme de lunch et/ou de drink conclura ces rencontres si les conditions sanitaires le permettent.
The Engage seminar aims to support and extend the work of its members through exchanges and meetings open to all interested parties. Based on the contributions of researchers, most of whom come from outside the Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, the aim is to feed the center’s reflections by broadening them to other research horizons. The themes addressed are therefore varied while remaining within the center’s research areas. Each session consists of one or two presentations related to the chosen theme, which we extend through discussions in a context that we hope is both stimulating and benevolent. A lunch and/or drink conclude the session if the health conditions allow it.
Séance du 26 octobre 2021 (EN)
Disinformation campaigns, information practices and platform responses
Campagnes de désinformation, pratiques informationnelles et réponses des plateformes
Grégoire Lits, Assistant professor in political and media sociology at the UCLouvain School of Communication and Journalism, and member of the Observatoire de recherche sur les médias et le journalisme (ORM)
Informational vulnerability, news avoidance and informational bulimia as dimensions of the Covid-19 infodemic in French-speaking Belgium
This presentation will focus on the interest of the notion of informational vulnerability in the context of research on misinformation and disinformation. The discussion of the concept and the underlying research approach will be supported by the presentation of the results of a multi-wave quantitative survey about, anxiety, news consumption and trust in information sources conducted during the first year of the Covid-19 crisis in French-speaking Belgium, as well as by the presentation of the preliminary results of a qualitative survey conducted among people with an information vulnerability profile.
Trisha Meyer, Assistant Professor in Digital Governance and Participation at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Professorial Fellow at the United Nations University CRIS in Bruges, and director of the Research Centre on Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation at VUB Brussels School of Governance.
Platform (un)accountability.
Reviewing platform responses to the global disinfodemic
This talk will focus on content and account moderation practices of social media platforms as a means to address disinformation. Theoretically, we will discuss the role of social media platforms as spaces for political speech, the distinction between regulation of/through technology and the challenges of self/co-regulation. Empirically, we will review Facebook, Google, TikTok and Twitter’s responses to COVID-19 and US elections-related disinformation in 2020, furthering our understanding of often opaque moderation practices. In 2020, the editorial role of online platforms became visible as never before. Their ability to react quickly is both encouraging and worrying, if not accompanied by a known hierarchy of principles and stringent transparency and review measures.
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Quand ? 26 octobre 2021, 9h – 12h
Où ? Local P61 (6ème étage)
Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles
Boulevard du Jardin Botanique 43
1000 – Bruxelles
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