Led by the organising team of The University of Porto’s Unexpected Media Lab, this workshop brings together the motto of the Lab’s latest research project and the current, exponential concerns regarding an apparent dissolution of the trustworthiness of knowledge with significant segments of the global population. From science to politics, from health to history, there is an ongoing crisis in the reliability of facts, as well as the credibility of rigorous epistemologies.
The workshop proposes a hands-on, open-ended search for unorthodox approaches to counter these phenomena. Source materials (news, articles, memes, abstracts, AI-generated content, etc.) will be provided as starting points for participants to undergo an exploratory making of ‘objects of anti-disinformation’ during the workshop. These objects may end up being online platforms, just as they may end up being fanzine prototypes: the media may end up being the message, as we well know by now.
The action-based moments will alternate between a joint critical analysis towards the future writing of a paper submission on the subject and respective workshop experience. Delegates will gain renewed insights into current disinformation phenomena, and contribute to novel ways of acting on these, on civic, educational, and policy levels.
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