Canadian Association of Law Libraries Webinar on Social Media News, Psychological Biases, and AI

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is hosting a webinar on October 7, 2024, 12:00PM - 1:30pm EDT on A Perfect Storm: Social Media News, Psychological Biases, and AI:

"In an age where news information is created by millions and consumed by billions over social media (SM) every day, issues of information biases, fake news, and echo-chambers have dominated the corridors of technology firms, news corporations, policy makers, and society."

"In this context, the speakers will:

1. Explain information bias anchoring (IBA);
2. Put IBA in the context of social media news and how it creates an information deluge leading to uncertainty;
3. Discuss how technological rationality and individual biases intersect to mitigate the uncertainty, often leading to news information biases;
4. Explore how bad actors in society might be able to manipulate IBA to achieve nefarious ends."

The speakers are  Mark Whitmore, Associate Professor at Kent State University’s Department of Management and Information Systems; Dr. Pratim "Pratt" Milton Datta, Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business at Kent State University; and Dr. Joseph K. Nwankpa, Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems & Analytics and the Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

The webinar is free for CALL members. 

Cost is $50.00 for non-members and $15.00 for student non-members.