Category: fake news
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CORECON-based scientific event “Responsible journalism in the era of AI” as a FORTHEM Alliance collective short-term mobility at University of Opole
The event was organized 27-31 October 2025 and brought FORTHEM students of communication together with researchers and practitioners, in order to revisit the notion of responsible journalism in the era marked by rapid technological advancements, particularly the increasing influence of algorithms, AI-powered applications, and big-tech-controlled networking platforms. Context and rationale In the last few years…
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Adolescents’ Perception of the War inUkraine on Social Media: A Researchers’ Night Experiment
Adolescents increasingly learn about geopolitics through social media feeds optimized for engagement rather than accuracy. During Researchers’ Night, we piloted a rapid, skills-based intervention aimed at improving Romanian teens’ judgments of Russia–Ukraine war headlines. Participants completed a brief pretest survey and rated a mix of verified and fabricated headlines. They then received a short lesson…
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Exploring epistemic rights and truth claims: Insightful book reviews from CORECON members
This blogpost promotes two recent book reviews that were commissioned from CORECON members Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Ecaterina Ilis by the academic journal “Power of Judgement” (Władza Sądzenia). This open-access indexed academic journal published by University of Lodz, Poland, self-describes as a venue answering to the need for regular and effective exchange of reflections in the…
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CORECON Lucian Blaga University’s “Researchers’ Night”: A Report on a Workshop with High School and Secondary School Students
On 27 September 2024, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu hosted the annual event “Noaptea Cercetătorilor” (Researchers’ Night) as part of the European Researchers’ Night, a pan-European event meant, among other things, to bring research and researchers closer to the public and to show how research affects our daily lives. We explored the social responsibility future…
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Fostering resilience against war disinformation among the youth:CORECON joins forces with FORTHEM’s DisInfoResist to develop a research study and intervention for schools
DisInfoResist is the name of the FORTHEM student-driven pilot study and intervention project devoted to building up resilience to disinformation on Russian-Ukrainian conflict among Polish teenagers. It took place in Opole in the spring semester of 2024 and was carried out by a group of University of Opole MA students of English Philology supervised by…