Misinformation and Disinformation Case Studies: How to Curb the Infodemic? Start Presentation: https://sway.office.com/LoVJGhUiWpTOUCYr This is an interactive digital wall, an end-of-course presentation of Case Studies for a graduate class (FIMS9328), taught by Prof. Rubin (in the Winter 2022 term) at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) at Western University in London, ON, CANADA. Read More …
Author: Rubin, Victoria
Dr. Rubin Gives a Talk to the University of Wisconsin-Madison iSchool Students
Detection, Deterrence, and Prevention of Mis- and Disinformation by Victoria L. Rubin; 15 April 2022 Abstract. This talk frames the problem of deceptive, inaccurate, and misleading information in the digital media content and information technologies as a socio-technological problem of an infodemic. Mis- and disinformation proliferate online, yet the solution remains elusive and many of Read More …
Kelly presents “Dark Pattern Typology: How Social Networking Sites Deter Disabling of User Account”
On Friday, December 3, 2021 at 4:30 PM Dominique Kelly will present in the FIMS Mediations Series on “Dark Pattern Typology: How Social Networking Sites Deter Disabling of User Account.” This talk is accessible via Zoom ( Zoom link: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/j/96764116849 or a Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/PLARJzTC, organised by the mediations organizing committee at FIMS, Western University, London, ON. Abstract Read More …
Book under Contract with Springer Nature Publisher
During my 2020-21 sabbatical, I have been contracted by Springer Nature to write a book, tentatively titled, “Misinformation and Disinformation: Detecting Fakes with the Eye and AI” (to be completed by 2022.) The idea was first developed for a FIMS graduate course “Misinformation & Viral Deception” that was first offered in 2019. Brief Description (in Read More …
Dr. Rubin’s Interview with Youth Time International Movement
Youth Time International Movement representative, Olivia Hupp, reached out to me for an interview about the Psychology of Misinformation. I gladly agreed to participate. The Youth Time International Movement is based in Prague, Czechia. It is a nonprofit organization which, in Olivia’s words, is “geared towards empowering the youth (18-35) to find solutions and take Read More …
I’m back!
I’m coming back to teaching after a year of sabbatical. My 2021/22 leave was spent writing a book “Misinformation and Disinformation: Detecting Fakes with the Eye and AI” (to be completed by 2022) under a contract with the Springer Nature Publisher (details here). In 2021/22 I hope to see our FIMS students face-to-face, assuming Western Read More …
Digital Wall of Iconographics on Counter-Misinformation Strategies
Visit our Digital Wall of Iconographics: “Strategies for Prevention, Deterrence, or Detection of Mis-/Disinformation” In Winter 2020 academic term, graduate students in the “Misinformation and Viral Deception” course at FIMS, Western University conducted Case Studies about events that involved elements of deception. Generalizing from particular Case Study circumstances to broader types of information manipulation (online Read More …
Delellis and Rubin Publish a Chapter in a New Book on “Fake News”
A new book on ‘fake news’ is out and we contributed a chapter to it! “Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World”, edited by Kimiz Dalkir & Rebecca Katz (McGill University, Canada), is a collection of innovative research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such Read More …
Dr. Rubin Gives Three-Minute R&D Talk
In just a few words, we compute natural language patterns to identify varieties of fakes in online news. Is 3 minutes enough time to talk about it? Hardly, but you get a better sense of it: The 3-minute format was an imposed requirement by the Organizers of the 3MTalks. In practice, it’s either a turtle Read More …
Guest Talk by Doug Williams, LPL Cataloguer
On Friday, 6 December 2019, a group of MLIS students and I welcomed an invited speaker in our last class of Fall 2019 academic term. Doug Williams, Cataloguer at the London Public Libraries (LPL) Central Branch, agreed to come to Western University and give us a talk about his work from the point of view Read More …