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SUMMARY:Brown bag: Mor Naaman
DESCRIPTION:Title: Towards Supporting a Trustworthy Information
	 Ecosystem\nSpeaker: Mor Naaman\nAbstract: I will describe a set of
	 projects aiming to realign our information technology ecosystem to
	 better serve societal goals. First\, I will discuss two projects that
	 use AI to help fight adversarial online interactions in support of our
	 most important information workers: journalists. The first project uses
	 computer vision algorithms to allow journalists to collaborate around
	 visual misinformation: images shared online to manipulate and mislead
	 journalists and others. The second project uses new computational
	 methods to better detect online harassment campaigns like those often
	 targeting journalists and political candidates. \n\nTackling adversarial
	 interactions/information alone may not be enough. How can we nudge our
	 information ecosystems towards trustworthiness? In the second part of
	 the talk I will share our recent online experiment research on trust in
	 online news (with surprising results!)\, and draw on these results to
	 discuss a theoretical path for increasing online trust. \n\nJoint work
	 with many including Cornell PhD students Yiqing Hua and Maurice Jakesch.
	 \n\nMor Naaman is an associate professor of Information Science at the
	 Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech\, where he is the founder of the
	 Connective Media hub\, leads a research group focused on social
	 technologies\, and directs the Oath-supported Connected Experiences
	 laboratory. His research group designs\, builds\, and studies studies
	 social systems\, with a focus on topics related to Technology\, Media
	 and Democracy. Mor applies multidisciplinary methods to 1) gain a better
	 understanding of people and their use of social tech; 2) extract
	 insights about people\, technology and society from social media and
	 other sources of social data\, and 3) develop new social technologies as
	 well as novel tools to make social data more accessible and usable in
	 various settings. Previously\, Mor was on the faculty at the Rutgers
	 School of Communication and Information\, led a research team at Yahoo!
	 Research Berkeley\, received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
	 Stanford University InfoLab\, and played professional basketball for
	 Hapoel Tel Aviv. He is a recipient of a NSF Early Faculty CAREER Award\,
	 research awards and grants from numerous corporations including AOL and
	 Google\, and multiple best paper awards.\n\n\nIf needed\, high-res
	 headshots are
	 available:\nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/mmoorr/15592772261/sizes/z/\nht
	tps://www.flickr.com/photos/mmoorr/15516802398/sizes/z/
LOCATION:Gates 122
UID:2019-03-05
STATUS:TENTATIVE
DTSTART:20190305T170000Z
DTEND:20190305T180000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190303T162748Z
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Shi:http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jshi/brownbag/
DTSTAMP:20260408T184334Z
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