Let’s save our children from misinformation and misleading content. How might we reshape media literacy - using visual tools, VR, AR, Voice Assistants - to interact with new generations, keep them ...
Jochen Spangenberg
Jochen Spangenberg works for Germany's international broadcaster Deutsche Welle in the Research and Cooperation Projects unit, which operates at the intersection of journalism, IT, and media science. In addition to strategic and management issues, Jochen’s topical focus over the past years has been on social newsgathering, verification of user-generated content and the use of eyewitness media for news reporting. This includes participation in the EU co-funded research projects REVEAL, InVID and WeVerify, all dealing with algorithm-supported verification of social media content, and the development of Truly Media, a commercial platform for collaborative verification.
Previously, Jochen was Chief Operating Officer and Editor-in-Chief at a new media company, and worked for BBC News & Current Affairs in radio and TV. Jochen also lectures at the Free University Berlin in Media & Communication Sciences, and is an advisor as well as teacher for Lie Detectors, an NGO that brings media literacy into classrooms. He is the author of the book The BBC in Transition and a number of articles, papers and book chapters.
Using technology in the fight against misinformation is nothing new. Numerous developments and initiatives that aim to counter the spread of false information with the aid of technology have emerged i...
Automating verification? The role of technology in the verification process: status, activities and challenges
The session will investigate and outline how and to what extent technology (such as tools, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning) can support journalists, fact-checkers and those investigating hum...
The spread of information via social networks has added new challenges to the journalistic profession. So far, there are few tools that are "made for journalism" and support verification in a collabor...
With the rise of automation in journalism, we have seen that automated tools can be used to write texts from structured information. But what about fact checking itself? We've seen a few high-profil...
