Multidisciplinary Studies of Manipulative Practices in the Digital Environment

About the conference

This year's conference will be dedicated to Media Neuroscience and will focus on the mechanisms underlying the neurocognitive processing of manipulative and false information. Fake news is a type of information where false and misleading information (including news) is designed to deceive audiences. The conference will focus on discussing the phenomenon of manipulative and fake messages in the context of various scientific disciplines, new research methodologies, and technologies for producing and disseminating false information. Additionally, we will discuss applied aspects of research on the perception of false information: from fraudulent schemes and deep-fake technologies to approaches for neutralizing them.

Current realities convincingly demonstrate that the phenomenon of fake news and realistic disinformation needs to be studied from multiple perspectives, utilizing achievements from experimental and computational sciences, mass media research, and legal approaches. The conference will feature an interdisciplinary discussion about fakes with participation from representatives of media communications, psychology, neurobiology, political science, and computer science. Scientific, technological, and ethical aspects of creating and disseminating fakes will be addressed.

Keynote speaker: Rene Weber, Professor, Media Neuroscience Lab, University of California Santa Barbara.

We welcome presentations on interdisciplinary topics of disinformation.

Conference Registration. To register for the conference, please complete the registration form, accessible via the button above. You can register as a lecture attendee, as well as a lecture attendee with participation in the blitz talk.

To register as a participant in the blitz talk, we ask that you attach an abstract of your presentation. Abstracts are accepted in .docx or .pdf format. The file name should include the author's first and last name, for example, Smith_John_thesis.pdf. The abstract text should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Illustrations and tables are permitted, provided they are kept within one page.

Registration fee.
• Free for HSE staff and students.
• 500 rubles for external participants.
A payment link will be sent to the email address you provided within 2-3 weeks of registration.

Date: 20 of November

Registration deadline: 31 of October

Location: Moscow, Myasnitskaya street 11, room 518

Format: blended (offline, Zoom)

Language: russian, english

Organizing commitee

• Vasily Klucharev, Professor, Head of the International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, HSE University

• Oksana Zinchenko, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University

• Olessia Koltsova, Head of the Laboratory of Social and Cognitive Informatics, HSE University in St. Petersburg

• Vasily Gromov, Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science, HSE University

• Svetlana Shomova, Professor, Faculty of Creative Industries, Institute of Media

• Victoria Moiseeva, Deputy Director of the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, HSE University

• Eliana Monahhova, Research Assistant, Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, HSE University

• Alexandra Morozova, Research Assistant, International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, HSE University

• Yulia Gorodnicheva, Research Assistant, International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, HSE University

Program

• Gathering of participants

  9:30-9:45

• Conference opening

  9:45 - 10:00

  Vasily Klucharev, welcome speech

• Keynote speaker

  10:00 - 11:00

  Rene Weber, "Media Neuroscience - Opportunities of a Research Field with Increasing Relevance."

• Coffee break

  11:00 - 11:20

• Section 1: Neurocognitive studies of media

  11:20 - 12:40

   

  • 11:20 - 11:40, Olessia Koltsova, TBA
  • 11:40-12:00, Eliana Monahhova, "Authoritativeness, Inner Attitudes, or the Opinion of Others: Why The Brain  Trusts Misinformation"
  • 12:00 - 12:20, Alexandra Morozova, "Neural and cognitive correlates of resistance to misinformation"
  • 12:20 - 12:40, Julia Gorodnicheva, "Modern types of misinformation and the brain’s reaction to them"

• Lunch

  12:40 - 14:00

• Invited lecture

  14:00 - 15:00

  • Radoslava Trnavac, "Unpacking the language of fake news in English: from persuasion to evaluation"

• Section 2: Trends and Risks in Media

  15:00 - 16:10

  Moderator: Anna Kachkaeva, journalist, media expert

  • 15:00 - 15:30, Invited talk by Vadim Radaev (HSE First Vice Rector, Head of the Laboratory of Economic and Sociological Research), "Seduced by the Net: The Transformation of Engagement into Digital Addiction (An Intergenerational Analysis)"
  • 15:30 - 15:50, TBA, "Dialogue with the "other" and the synthetic reality of "synthetic media""
  • 15:50 - 16:10, Irina Dushakova (HSE Center for Digital Cultures and Media Literacy),"Dialogue with the 'Other' in the Presence of the 'Other': Changing Communication Practices and AI Literacy"
  • 16:10 - 16:30, Svetlana Shomova (Professor, HSE Center for Digital Cultures and Media Literacy), "Political deepfakes: what do we know about them and are they really that dangerous?"

• Break

  16:30 - 16:40

• Round table "AI and misinformation: Salvation of a New Threat"

  16:40 - 18:00

  Moderator: Yulia Gorodnicheva

  Participants: Vasily Gromov (Faculty of Computer Science, HSE), Dmitry Ilvovsky (Faculty of Computer Science, HSE)

• Blitz talks

  18:00 - 19:00

• Panel discussion

  19:00 - 20:00,  Discussion of interdisciplinary projects, networking