PROGRAM

IPSA RC10 and RC22 supported workshop:

“Journalism and Artificial Intelligence” 

Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 28^th 2020

25^thAnnual International Conference on Information Technology and Journalism: “Internet in the Era of Disinformation” 

Interuniversity Centre Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Sept 29^th 2020

 

WORKSHOP

Monday, September 28

 

9:00 – 9:30

Registration, Inter – University Center

9:30 – 10:00

Welcome coffee

Welcome speech by the Rector of the University of Zagreb, Damir Boras

Address speech by Organizing committe

Presentation of the IPSA Digital project (Domagoj Bebić, University of Zagreb)

Nenad Prelog, University of Zagreb

 

SESSION 1

10:00 – 11:40

Chair: Mato Brautović, University of Dubrovnik

 

1. Digital Populism in 2019/2020 Croatian Presidential Election 

           Marijana Grbeša – Zenzerović, University of Zagreb

 

2. Crisis and freedom of information: the public value of government open data in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic

          Anamarija Musa, University of Zagreb

 

3. Communication changes caused by the COVID-19 epidemic

          Domagoj Bebić, University of Zagreb

 

4. “A Beautiful Mind”: Journalism’s Reconfiguration in Relation to AI

           Nikola Mlađenović, University of Belgrade

 

COFFEE BREAK

11:40 – 12:10

 

SESSION 2

12:10 – 13:25

Chair: Domagoj Bebić, University of Zagreb

 

1. Polish Mass Media Coverage and Public Opinion on E-democracy: Example of Electronic Voting

          Magdalena Musiał-Karg, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

         Izabela Kapsa, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz

 

2. The role of social media in 2020 parliamentary elections in Croatia

           Marija Volarević, European business school Zagreb

           Lucija Rajčić, VERN’ University of applied sciences

 

3. When Fact-checking renews Information Technology and Journalism: an Epistemological Approach

            Angelina Toursel, Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France

            Dr. Philippe Useille, Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France

 

LUNCH BREAK

13:25 – 15:00 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

15:00 – 16:30

Keynote lecture:

The Rhetoric of Supreme Court Women

Nichola D. Gutgold, Penn State University

 

 

CONFERENCE

Tuesday, September 29

 

SESSION 3

9:15 – 10:30

Chair: Marijana Grbeša – Zenzerović, University of Zagreb

 

 

1. Are we living in the post-truth era?

           Iva Budimir, University of Zagreb

           Professor Damir Boras, University of Zagreb, Rector

 

2. Routines of correcting journalistic errors in Croatian online media: between achieving the goals of media accountability and facilitating the phenomenon of ‘Fake News’

          Mato Brautović, University of Dubrovnik

 

3. Infodemic and other conspiracy theories

          Nenad Prelog, University of Zagreb

 

COFFEE BREAK

10:30 -11:00

 

SESSION 4

11:00 – 12:15

Chair: Nenad Prelog, University of Zagreb

 

1. Information technology and journalism pressed through a sieve of COVID-19 pandemic

           Inoslav Bešker, Split University

 

2. Seeing is (not) believing

           Lordan Prelog, University of Zagreb

 

3. One Man’s Misinformation, Another Man’s Treasure: What did Neoliberals do?

           Nikola Mlađenović, University of Belgrade

 

LUNCH BREAK

12:15 – 13:45

 

13:45 – 16:15

Annual meeting of the conference directors and organizing commitee of the Workshop (Summing up, Next conference topics, Cooperation with other universities etc.)