Journalism and the Search for Truth in the Age of Social Media

Panel 2: Social responses to fake news: fears, trust, and knowledge.
Panel chair: Jessica Baldwin-Phillips, Fordham University.
Panelists:

• Matt Carlson, St. Louis University;
• Erik Bucy, Texas Tech University;
• Sun Kyong “Sunny” Lee, University of Oklahoma.

Morning Session-2

Panel 3: Trolling, computer moderation, and algorithms.
Panel chair: Michael Schudson, Columbia University.
Panelists:

• Jo Ann Oravec, University of Wisconsin, White Water;
• Nathaniel Matias, MIT;
• Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Indiana University.

Afternoon Session-1

Panel 4: Perspectives on Truth, Knowing, and Communication.
Panel chair: Juliet Floyd, Boston University.
Panelists:

• Alex Couch, MIT;
• Peppino Ortoleva, University of Turin;
• Jacob Groshek, Boston University.

Afternoon Session-2 Afternoon Session-3

Panel 5: Fake news in a historical and contemporary perspective.
Panel chair: Michelle Amazeen, Boston University.
Panelists:

• Julien Gorbach, University of Hawaii;
• Emily Vraga/Leticia Bode, George Mason University;
• Martin Glazier, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Morning Session-1

Panel 6: Global perspectives: similarities and novelties.
Panel chair: Michaël Vallee, Consulate of France in Boston.
Panelists:

• Daniel Halpern, Catholic University of Santiago;
• Agnes Veszelszki, Corvinus University of Budapest.

Morning Session-2

Keynotes.
Session chair: James E. Katz, Boston University.
Keynote address: Michael Schudson, Columbia University.

Afternoon Session-1

Panel 7: What it is meaning of the journalistic search for truth, and how do we move forward in an era of social media?
Panel chair: Ellen Cushman, Northeastern University.
Panelists:

• Jennifer Forestal, Stockton University;
• Bruno Patino, Sciences Po;
• Thomas E. Fiedler, Boston University.

Afternoon Session-2

Panel 7 continued.
Concluding remarks: James E. Katz, Boston University.

Afternoon Session-3