Tag: social media
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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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CORECON contribution to Res Rhetorica journal: Releasing a thematic issue on “Mediated Rhetoric of Recent Conflicts” (June 2025)
This blogpost is an adaptation of the introduction to the thematic issue entitled “Mediated Rhetoric of Recent Conflicts” released in June 2025 as issue 2 of volume 12 of Res Rhetorica – a Web-of-Science and Scopus-indexed journal of the Polish Rhetoric Society. The blogpost explains the motivation for the issue and presents its most interesting…
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Tracking false narratives about Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A workshop with students on addressing fake news challenges in both research and practice
On 8th April 2024 Ecaterina Ilis (ULBS) delivered a guest lecture “Researching fake news: Understanding the challenges” and a workshop to University of Opole MA students majoring in Language and Communication in the English Philology study program. Given her long-standing interest in critical discourse analysis of mediated fake news in the context of COVID-19 pandemic,…