FACING DISINFORMATION
5-WEEK TRAINING PROGRAMME
ONLINE - NOV/DEC 2021
5-WEEK TRAINING PROGRAMME
ONLINE - NOV/DEC 2021
Insights and strategies to counter the online information
pandemic
Disinformation has found its perfect habitat online, where it spreads rapidly and, like a computer virus, corrupts information - and thereby our discourse - on any and every topical issue. In an online landscape where disinformation is endemic, however, facts and credible analysis on disinformation, are still frustratingly elusive.
Developed and presented by Alistair Alexander, Regional Democratic Hub - Caucasus with Disruption Network Lab, this free online training programme for over 100 researchers, human rights campaigners and journalists in Georgia and surrounding countries, was conducted from Nov 2021 for 5 weeks (3 hours per week). The programme featured leading researchers, campaigners and practitioners from across the world and also the region.
Every session included insightful talks, break-out discussions and workshop exercises, covering:
This programme was funded by the Auswärtiges Amt.
More on the project: https://www.disruptionlab.org/facing-disinformation
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Disinformation has found its perfect habitat online, where it spreads rapidly and, like a computer virus, corrupts information - and thereby our discourse - on any and every topical issue. In an online landscape where disinformation is endemic, however, facts and credible analysis on disinformation, are still frustratingly elusive.
Developed and presented by Alistair Alexander, Regional Democratic Hub - Caucasus with Disruption Network Lab, this free online training programme for over 100 researchers, human rights campaigners and journalists in Georgia and surrounding countries, was conducted from Nov 2021 for 5 weeks (3 hours per week). The programme featured leading researchers, campaigners and practitioners from across the world and also the region.
Every session included insightful talks, break-out discussions and workshop exercises, covering:
- Disinformation: a field guide to the
different types, why they spread and how to detect them;
- Algorithmic influence: how bots, and
automated processes are embedded in our online conversations;
- Platform deception: how disinformation
develops and spreads on different platforms
- Anatomy of a conspiracy theory: how and why
conspiratorial thinking goes viral so rapidly
- Disinformation in different contexts: drawing on experience and research from different countries
- Disinformation counter-strategies: Facts and fact checking are not enough - using story telling approaches to build effective narratives
This programme was funded by the Auswärtiges Amt.
More on the project: https://www.disruptionlab.org/facing-disinformation
