Information at a time of fake news, disinformation and post-truth politics
Le implicazioni politiche delle pratiche di creazione e diffusione di fake news, disinformazione e distorsione della realtà sono al centro della discussione tra accademici e professionisti del mondo dell'informazione. Un focus particolare sarà dedicato a come questi fenomeni si manifestano in Russia e più in generale nello spazio post-sovietico
Il workshop è parte del Jean Monnet Project "EU-Russia: Connecting People and Ideas. Revolution, Post-Soviet Space, Information", coordinato dalla Dott.ssa Serena Giusti.
Programma:
Monday, May 6
Venue: Aula Magna (Sede Centrale)
11.00 – 11.15
Welcome Remarks
Rector/Department Director
Serena Giusti, Coordinator of the project
11.15 – 13.00
Round Table: Responses to the challenges of the politics of manipulation
Chair: Serena Giusti – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Speakers:
Benjamin V. Wohlauer – Consul General of the United States of America in Florence
Alexandre Stutzmann – Director for External Policies in the European Parliament
Raimonda Miglinaite – East Stratcom Task Force, European External Action Service
Matthew Loveless – European University Institute
Debate
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30
Session 1: Fake news, disinformation and post-truth politics in the Post-Soviet Space and Russia
Chair: Elisa Piras, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Speakers:
Alicia Walness – King’s College London
Countering Information Operations: Why Words Fail Us
Nicolas de Pedro – The Institute for Statecraft, London
Disinformation and Russian Strategic Thinking
Michael Berk – President & CEO Alton Corporation
Interference, useful idiots and "enemies of the people": how do we draw the lines in an information war?
Francesco Bechis - Editor-at- large «Formiche»
Sharp Power and Media: the Russian Approach
Debate
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30
Session 2: Fake news, disinformation and post-truth politics in the Post-Soviet Space and Russia
Mara Morini – University of Genova
Myths and Realities of Putinism in the post-truth Politics
Vasil Navumau – Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, Tartu
Integration or Absorption? Media Representations of the Latest Russia-Belarus Negotiations
Mihail Stojanoski – University of Strasbourg
When a credible source turns ‘fake’: the Relotius affair and the German system for combatting fake news
Debate
Tuesday, May 7
Venue: Aula Magna (Sede Centrale)
9.00 – 11.00
Session 3: The media and fake news
Introduction and Chair: Francesco Ceccarelli, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Speakers:
Anna Zafesova – «La Stampa» and «Il Foglio»
Journalism and fake news
Urban Larssen – Södertörn University and Centre for Baltic and East European Studies
Dealing and coping with fake news in everyday professional life in Sweden
Giorgio Comai – Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT/CCI)
Responding to alleged Russian interference by focusing on the vulnerabilities that make it possible
Rocco de Nicola - IMT Lucca
The Toffee Project: Tools for Fighting Fakes".
Debate
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00
Session 4: The media and fake news
Iryna Zhyrun – High School of Economics, Moscow
Fake news in real media: consequences for the dynamics of conflict situations
Emanuela Caiani, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
The populist radical right, the internet and European democracy
Matteo Monti – Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies
Google, the Press, and the EU Legislation: an Analysis of the 'Fake News' issue
Debate
13.00 – 13.30
Final Remarks: Francesco Ceccarelli, Elisa Piras, Luigi Cino and Serena Giusti
Conference Organizers
Serena Giusti
Francesco Ceccarelli
Luigi Cino
Elisa Piras
Contacts
serena.giusti@sssup.it
luigi.cino@sssup.it
elisa.piras@sssup.it
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