Opening Address: Welcome to Checking the Fact-Checkers International Conference 2022
Speaker: Prof. Huang Yu, Dr. Celine Song, Prof. Raymond Li, Prof. Daya Thussu, Dr. Drew Margolin
Time: 9:30 – 9:40 HKT
Keynote Talk 1 (9:40 – 10:30 HKT)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kelly Garrett, Professor, Ohio State University
Panel 1: Network Approach to Fact-Checking Research (10:40 – 12:00 HKT)
Chair: Dr. Drew Margolin, Associate Professor, Cornell University
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Dr. Chris Chao Su & Dr. Michelle A. Amazeen | Racial disparities in debunking efforts: A network analysis of the referenced web entities on SciCheck |
| Dr. Zhai Wei | Spatiotemporal patterns and social networks of disaster misinformation sharing and its correction |
| Dr. Stephanie Tsang | The Effects of Different Misinformation Tactics on Readers |
Lunch Break 12:00 – 13:00 HKT
Panel 2: Understanding Misinformation and Detection Techniques (13:00 – 15:00 HKT)
Chair: Dr. Liang Lan, Manager (Technology and Operation), HKBU Fact Check
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Prof. Zhao Yonghua & Dou Shuqi | A study on causes and generation mechanism of international fake news: Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis based on 32 cases |
| Dr. Su Yan | Partisan Media Use and Covid-19 misperceptions |
| Dr. Chan Chi Kit, Prof. Paul Lee, Dr. Keith Cheung & Dr. Clio Wu | Towards an Integrative Model for Automated Detection of Fake News |
| Dr. Songlin Hu | Beyond Content: Graph-based propagation structure learning for misinformation detection |
Panel 3: Fact-Checking in Practice (15:10 – 16:30 HKT)
Chair: Prof. Raymond Li, Professor of Practice, Hong Kong Baptist University
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Dr. Lu Yuanhang Kevin & Dr. Bess Y. Wang | Contextualizing Norms, Principles, and Routine of Fact-Checking: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Fact-checking Initiatives |
| Dr. Jennifer Birks | Fact-checking facts in narratives and narrative facts |
| Dr. Laurens Lauer | Similar Practice, Different Logics |
Keynote Talk 2 (9:00 – 9:30 HKT)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Harvard University
Keynote Talk 3 (9:30 – 10:00 HKT)
Speaker: Dr. Drew Margolin, Associate Professor, Cornell University
Panel 4: Fact-Checking and Journalism (10:10 – 11:50 HKT)
Chair: Dr. Bess Y. Wang, Co-Director, HKBU Fact Check
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Dr. Joel Luther | ClaimReview and MediaReview: The hidden infrastructure of fact-checks |
| Dr. Sebastián Valenzuela | Can Transparency Increase the Effectiveness of Fact-Checks? Experiments on Corrections, Belief Accuracy and Media Trust |
| Dr. Maria Diosa Labiste & Yvonne T. Chua | Journalism-Based Fact Checking and Advocacy Fact-Checking in the May 2022 Philippines Elections |
| Prof. Wu Ying & Haodong Xu | The Convergence of Journalistic Professionalism and Orientalism: A Study on the China-Related Fact-Checking Mechanism of International News |
Lunch Break 11:50 – 13:00 HKT
Keynote Talk 4 (13:00 – 13:30 HKT)
Keynote Speaker: Rachel Blundy, Head of Digital Investigation, AFP in Asia Pacific
Panel 5: Fact-Checking and the Public: Perception, Participation and Democracy (13:40 – 15:40 HKT)
Chair: Dr. Celine Song, Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Dr. Peter Loewen & Dr. John R. McAndrews | What Kinds of Fact Checks Do Citizens Want? Survey experimental evidence from Canada |
| Dr. Nick Zhang | The Promises and Pitfalls of growing public participation in fact-checking |
| Dr. Mathieu O’Neil & Dr. Rachel Cunneen | Developing the fact-checking skills of young Australian citizens in the attention economy |
| Dr. Andreea Alina Mogos & Dr. Alexandra Szilagyi | Teaching fact-checking in Europe: The EUFactcheck project - verification strategies and thematic focus |
| Dr. Alan Ouakrat & Marie-Noëlle Doutreix | Is fact-checking a tool for democracy in an algorithmically mediated context? |
Panel 6: Evaluating the Effects of Fact-Checking (15:50 – 17:10 HKT)
Chair: Professor Daya Thussu, Hong Kong Baptist University
| Speaker | Title |
|---|---|
| Dr. Yusi Liu & Dr. Wenjie Yan, Dr. Ruiming Zhou | A Mass Line Approach to Checking the Facts? Exploring the Effects of Mass Report as Fact-Checking Practice in China |
| Dr. Su Linsen | Effects of discussion networks on misinformation correction |
| Dr. Florian Dauphin | Limits to the effects of “fact-checking” and “debunking”: the case of the French experience |
Closing Speech
Time: 17:10-17:20 HKT
A selection of the papers will be published as an edited volume by a leading international publisher. We are aiming to approach Routledge in New York for the inclusion of the proposed book in their Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies series to be edited by Dr. Céline Yunya Song, Professor Daya Thussu (both of HKBU) and Dr. Drew Margolin (Cornel University, USA).
Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications, Harvard University
: matthew_baum@hks.harvard.edu
Keynote Talk 2- Dr. Matthew Baum
Title: "Building a Science of Misinformation: Defining the Problem and Developing a Research Community"
Head of Digital Investigation, AFP in Asia Pacific
Keynote Talk 4 - Rachel Blundy - Dr. Kelly Garrett
Title: "Combating misinformation in Asia-Pacific"
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