On Saturday, September 14, 2019 FIMS at Western participated first time in the “Doors Open London” event. Many thanks to the community members who cameView More
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Disinformation & Misinformation Triangle Published in Journal of Documentation
The Disinformation and misinformation triangle (Rubin, 2019) is a conceptual model for ‘fake news’ epidemic, causal factors and interventions. Author’s Keywords: disinformation, misinformation, deception; Internet,View More
LiT.RL Team Enters a Canada-wide 1 Million Dollar Competition to Identify False Claims
What are we working on now? What’s the next step? With the support and encouragement from the FIMS Dean’s Office, our LiT.RL team has recentlyView More
Join Us @Western for “Doors Open London” | Try Our News Verification Browser | Talk to Researchers
On Saturday, September 14, many units on campus will be participating in a London event called “Doors Open London”, where and in the city openView More
LiT.RL Welcomes New PhD Student, Nicole Delellis
Nicole is joining the FIMS PhD Program in LIS and we are excited to have her on board of our LiT.RL team! Nicole is noView More
Course Renamed & Will be Offered for Graduate Students Faculty-Wide
FIMS 9732 Understanding Language Technologies: Design, Use and Applications is a newly renamed course that is in its essence a humanities-friendly introduction to Natural LanguageView More
Call for Study Participants: News Verification Browser Usability
Some light digital work is awaiting you… We are still looking for a few more participants to try out our newly developed AI tool, theView More
Misinformation & Disinformation Book Project Underway
As the academic term is coming to its end, I am formally starting the process of assembling materials for an 8-10 chapter book, tentatively calledView More
End-of-Class Poster Session: Case Studies of Misinforming & Disinforming
When? Wed, April 10th 10:30 am – 1:00 p.m. Where? FIMS & Nursing Building (FNB) Atrium (1st floor lobby). Who? Graduate FIMS Students (See ListView More
Lazar to Present on Detecting Lies in Criminal Cases
On April 5, 2019, Zaia Lazar, an expert on investigative interviewing techniques and instructor of front line supervisor course at the Ontario Police College presentsView More