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Sure it's a little more friendly for zoom. Let me continue our questions. Okay, I feel that one a bit more smoothly today, then. On Tuesday I was my volume. icon I think it is yeah okay.
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i'm excuse me, Professor. Black marker instead because it's really hard to see.
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The blue one is OK, though.
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I think if you just said, can you adjust the camera and pointed upwards more.
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Oh, I see okay.
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Because it's also just the glare on this whiteboard. yeah like we can't even see that I think it says to see us to at.
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I was trying to do function first.
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that's better.
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Okay. So one nice thing about marches it's laid out. At 830 in the morning. Alright, so. I wanted to. be a bit more detail about. That event I mentioned. it's coming up in just less than two weeks now. that's a good point, thank you. So Ross is a friend of mine from undergraduate and master's program so I finished my bachelor's with ibs in 88. And my masters in 91 year before I went on to. Other things. So he's just been named the. Number make sure I get it all right, you know. it's just been named at the end of last year was named the Alberta health services chair and Ai and health. professions department of medicine and dentistry and an adjunct professor in the department of computer science at the University of Alberta he's a fellow with the Alberta machine intelligence Institute and senior program director of artificial intelligence adoption, with a ch hs. So you can read more things there. Yes. Sure let's try that. And i'm feeling less than less comfortable doing Facebook stuff. It took me. It felt like an hour, but didn't take that long to change the picture to get this picture for for the cover of the event. And it just it just doesn't seem like. It seems like I don't know. I don't want to say i'm getting old any older. Unless. Maybe Facebook, how many people. are big Facebook users, compared to what instagram and snapchat. So what's your preferred platform to us. Yes. instagram yeah. I have an account on instagram but that's. I haven't got much further than that. tell you about my Twitter story. So this was. In 2000 2014 I think we did an event or. We had a Canadian competing at compete Canadian competing education Day and it did a video, and we had a few things going on, so I want to share this information, with people. And i'm. Much more comfortable sending emails to people where i'm comfortable I was comfortable that it's, I guess, I still. So I tried to apply that. model of how to use Twitter. The model of using email to using Twitter and within a few hours, I had my account blocked. Because I was sending the same messages to. I was trying to address messages to individual people. But it just showed up as. New sending spam to everyone and, unlike account was blocked. And I pleaded with them that I was. doing it doing this event for the day and then they reinstated and after that surely after that I decided. That maybe I didn't need to use Twitter. anyway. So I mean that that goes back to our discussion about do you mean interfaces and. Okay, so there's the event i'm encourage you to come by if you're interested in artificial intelligence. or. interested in healthcare. So there's a link here to register for the zoom event zoom meeting. soon as well. Okay, so then go back to our class. So i've created. A formative feedback questionnaire it's open after today meeting and we'll close it Monday and then night. that's just for my benefit. You can give me a sense of a few questions about your impressions in the class so far, and maybe we can do some. make some tweaks in the last month in the last 10 meetings. So its formative because it's still an opportunity to change. And i'll let you do the same thing at the end of the Semester for a seminar of. Feedback as well. So that should be in the calendar, I think it is yeah. here's here it is they're in the calendar, so you should see it under upcoming events. So let's do attendance. Alright, so there's that. So we've done the Web groups. Now this. just going to show it to you briefly. Because I haven't added I haven't created a version without student numbers in. So now you're in groups from A to zed X so there's 24 groups like I promised. So I took your input on group membership. And then I. tried to make a few changes as possible to the restaurant, but I had to do a little bit of juggling. To get groups of four or five. So i'll post, the link without the email without the student numbers.
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In it.
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But then we.
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So now. groups are here. Alright, so. If you go to the group discussion forum. You can send messages to your group members here because you'll see. The group here and in the last. Okay. So I thought about editing the video that we that we have the demonstration, I did in class on Tuesday. I didn't get around to this group thing was a little bit more. time consuming than I thought. But instead of editing it i'll i'll post a link to the video from. from Tuesday, so you can see, and. well. If I can reasonably edit it, I will but otherwise i'll try and give you the time where that section up here it's.
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Okay.
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about the Web group list like web assessment like, are we not assigned to the groups that we selected.
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Yes, you are.
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Where can we find that list.
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So I will later today take out the student numbers and post a list, but you can, if you go to this page. Here, with a web. Web. Within group discussion forum. You click on separate groups web this drop down. You will see your group here. Okay.
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Thank you.
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yeah.
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You start updating the transcript on after meeting on your website, now the last meeting that SS transparent this meeting 10 on February.
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Really. I thought I was better I didn't think. Well, I will fix that sorry. I just had in my I didn't check it, but I thought that I was up to date. Well, not from yesterday, not from tuesday's meeting but. But before the break I thought I was. doing well. Okay, so speaking of other things that I thought about doing. There was a comment from a student who asked whether instead of the seven, you could have the assignment during the nine the blog entry assignment. Is that better still i'm not going to make it any later than that.
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A nice of March.
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or in me.
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There you saying blog entry will be moved a nice much.
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yeah so instead of Monday, it will be due on a Wednesday the night.
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yeah that sounds good.
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yeah I greatly appreciate that.
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So. You can have until Friday at one minute to midnight. Though there'll be a 10% penalty. So. You can, if you want to have a little bit extra time. You can do that, but. there's a bit of a cost there okay. Okay. And I will also post the pictures of the board. And i've taken. What else okay. This is my exercise for the day. No that's not quite true it's part of my workout routine. that's a little bit too generous. Anyway, going from my office on third, fourth college west to this room and in the classroom building. And just having to be in different places at different times. It seems like a workout. And I always find that to the. idea that you can't just pop in somewhere on your computer. You have to actually be somewhere physically. But that's, not to say that i'm. Not happy to be here. anyway.
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So just to confirm like will you still have like a zoom meeting or no.
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I didn't quite hear me turn off turn up your. What about the zoom meeting.
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The restart have to come to the zoom meeting or do you have to come to the live to the campus physically to meet you for the office hours.
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No it's. zoom meeting is fine for office hours. So something's coming I had to deal with something this morning, so the two hours, I have from 10 to noon. So regarding blog assignment.
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So, Sir, are you like going to have an office hour from 10 to 12 tomorrow.
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Yes, so i'm moving today's. office time. Do the same time tomorrow instead.
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Do to for office hours they're going to sit stay the same.
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it's not to the 4230 to 330.
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Oh sorry sorry is that officers to the thing. yeah oh.
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So before the break we talked about. Whether we should but submit your turn it in report and discuss your turn in report or simply answer some questions about each of your sources. So. i'm. leaning towards answering questions. Okay, so i'm just. Basically. Oh. Well formalize our discussion from before the break about that. update the assignment should reflect up. sure. it's a good question. So my feeling is the maybe because they're submitting html it would be. A good thing to include it in your. html file. Okay, so two things will do with that is so, the questions to answer what each of your sources. And then, a sample of how we might do that. Okay. I don't promise the video, but maybe i'll get one done. about that. Okay. My pleasure any other questions.
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So basically use it you'll be like how to sample or how to submit the information or we will ask the right questions to answer about my sources as well.
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So. i'm thinking about so I I believe I have a sample they're already have a blog entry, so what i'll do is i'll. use that example. To illustrate how I might submit. extra information my answers to the questions what each of the sources that they have. In that. sample blog entry so. i'll show you a more complete example of a blog entry what I think might be appropriate for a blog entry. With the added information about the sources. I answer your question.
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Yes, thank you.
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Welcome Anything else. i'll try and look at the camera. I feel like send this might think i'm staring at here but i'm actually looking at the camera. See you soon. All right. So I feel like i've indicated a number of sources already. I think I said to the four. But i'll check that. Okay yeah so it's about the project proposal. So the proposal. Is what you're proposing something they're going to do. And then we're going to realize the proposal with a deliverable of the by the end of the Semester. So it's different from the blog entry so. So the blog entry is an idea as the intent is for you to. write something. For the web. Whether or not it actually gets onto the Web it's up to you. But it will be within your courses anyway. So that's. A writing assignment. Related to current topics and. Things that are currently of interest in the world. With some. Details so i'm trying to give you enough some structure to work with. And so there's there's the blog entries that's the writing assignment that's that and then the project is the ability for you to you could write something again, you could do you could research, a topic. You could write a Wikipedia article, you can, but you. So the idea is by yourself, or with a group of people. You can explore topics of interest you in a form that's not necessarily writing it could be producing a video. It could be doing a number of different things. So, the reason I did the project proposal is to encourage you to think about this before. The due date. Anyone ever. leave things to the due date with even without. Even though you may have had the best of intentions. So i'm trying to. support you, by having a proposed proposal do beforehand, so that you can do some thinking about what you're going to create for the in the project. So both things are related to. Our discussions and there are themes in class but they're different. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, thanks send us. Any other things. Okay. Okay. picture here. So I thought we would try a breakout discussion today and see how. The class groups work. Our class work groups. Work now that we're some of a certain person and some of us are in line and. So I want you to say we're talking about she made interfaces and I just want you to think about or be mindful of the role of technology in facilitating this. hybrid kind of discussion. So I just. My handwriting is nuggets to janice to say handwriting I was my scribbling on the word is it okay. In terms of legibility in the back. Okay. So maybe that's sort of the background question and think about them to discuss. So that would be my mom calling but it's not. that's neither here nor there. Okay, so. The topic i'd like for us to discuss is. So here, this is what i'm thinking. For discussion today. see if it makes sense or enough to work with anyway What role can technology play in combating disinformation. Do we need to even worry about it. I mean the review is an individual to. understand that this is click bait. and ignore it. For example. So, if it is something to worry about whose responsibility is it do we need to take this on. We need to do our own work to. To combat the desert this information, we find where do we rely on the government or some other platforms to do it. So that makes sense as a. Discussion topic. Okay, so. i'm going to start breakout rooms. Well breakout rooms. options. Well participants to choose your. that's a new one. i'm gonna make it be stuck in the breakout room. Once you start. So I feel like that wasn't complete successful. Because everybody's been assigned to rooms, let me. yeah I saw I saw that PIC that. Okay i'm going to close this and try again. So zoom is something that. that's a nice way to say that says isn't the interfaces and quite as you mean, as I would like to be. So one thing that happens okay. see if I can do this again. breakout rooms options. Okay, so I think that's the best I can do for that. So. Why, I wonder, is it gives me the option to let people. do things. When. This has already happened. It seems to me that people choose their own room. There we go. Okay now we're at the end of class time not just kidding. Yes. yeah I think so, and then. And then, if you're if you know people in your breakout room. Do any of you know each other. Okay. little bit okay well. If you are in the same group. In class here, so you can sit. closer together. Well, not not uncomfortably close. But I think start out with zoom if you can that would be fine. Okay, so. Should I go through. let's see. Last the cursor there. Anyone hearing in class work group number one. room to. grow group to. group three. there's one person group three Okay, and the others. Okay group to. Group for. Okay, one person group five. group six. Okay, so. No pressure for you to be shy people talking. It should go talk to one another. don't don't feel self conscious, this is. it's easy for me to say. group 7890 okay there's two people in group 910. Hello 1112. Okay, so. So the two of you in group nine you can. See how that works as well to. talk in person. Okay, so let's take 10 minutes let's well let's try try for between seven and 10 minutes and. So if you're able to join your breakout room and zoom as well. And we'll see if we can have a bit of a discussion. A bit of a hybrid discussion. And we'll come back at the end for a couple minutes. Okay, so i'm turning on well. Yes. well. So i'm fine with doing that for but try it out for five minutes. Five minutes or so. thanks for that suggestion i'm. Okay. I think we're getting closer to the end of class and I had intended. Well, I have to cause. So, was that a good discussion. was a good discussion. yeah no that's all right. So I invite you to be back. Well, it seems like a long time. So who can write. You want to contribute to the wiki about our breakout discussion would be nice. and Okay. Now everyone. Anyway, so we're out of time for today, people in zoom. Thanks for joining us and people in class thanks for playing along. So we. have some ideas about doing discussions in class. we'll talk about them more on Tuesday, so the idea would be if you have some something you'd like to. share with the class let's put it in the wiki and or in online forums. And I just want to say thank you very much for today. And I have my list of things to do take care of today. And remember my office availability from 10 to noon today is move until 10 to noon tomorrow. And with that have a great weekend and we'll talk to you on Tuesday.
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Have a good weekend.
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Thank you. Take care everyone.
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Take care everyone in there.
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Okay, thanks.
Zoom Chat Transcript
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Good Morning!
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Good morning!
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Hi! What is the attendance code?
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The attendance code has not been given yet
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Student password
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Attendance password?
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Video demonstrating how to create a blog post will be uploaded soon.
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Check the web within-group discussion forum under the ‘Assignments’ section in UR Courses to find your group.
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The transcripts of the meetings will be updated so that they are current. The list of web groups will also be posted for you to reference.
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yes, I have other stuff due on the 7
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Blog entry deadline will be moved from Monday March 7 to Wednesday March 9.
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Office hours are run via Zoom.
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Instead of "each of your sources" should we say a certain number of your sources?
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Alright. I just wanted to make sure. That makes sense.
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Is project proposal part of project deliverable and is blog entry different from project deliverable?
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Yes
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The proposal is what you want to do (the plan), the deliverable is what you actually do (the project). The blog entry and project are separate.
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That makes sense thx!!!^^
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The blog entry is a writing assignment on current events related to class. The project could be in any form (specified in your project proposal) and it is meant for you to explore a topic that interests you that is related to the class.
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Dr Hepting’s website has detailed information on each of the assignments: http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting/teaching/CS-280/202210/
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Breakout room discussion: what role can technology play in combatting disinformation? Do we even need to worry about it? Whose responsibility is it?
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The most important thing that I encountered:
- The most important thing that I learned in the class today is that the due date of the blog post got moved back to Wed. Mar. 9, and that there would be an example of how to setup the blog and how to properly cite and answer the source questions.
- Our group believed that the best way to combat disinformation could only be achieved through long term solutions such as proper scientific education. Short term solutions are the wrong approach, and will only lead to more arguments.
- how hard it is to come up with a solution to stop disinformation
- A lot of misuse of information happens on the internet so the responsibility of the platform host is to prevent the spread of it. Here the technology comes in action and acts as a firewall so that the spread should be prevented and necessary precautions are taken.
- etail of bolg.
- I agree that education is the (or atleast part of the) solution to combat disinformation
- I learned about blockchain during the breakout room. We discussed how it is permanent and you can tell who exactly is posting. This allows people to easily trace back credibility and could potentially lead to better monitoring of credibility and sources. You can only ever add to the chain. I'll have to look more into this when he posts his blog/assignment about it.
- Today we talked about "Technology" role in combatting disinformation in breakout rooms. I think the technology is making disinformation available to our society while combatting on the other side, example: social media, news sites.
- The role of technology in combatting disinformation is to identify false information and timely deletion to prevent proliferation.
- Technology companies should invest in tools that identify fake news, reduce financial incentives for those who profit from disinformation, and improve online accountability. Educational institutions should make informing people about news literacy a high priority. Individuals should follow a diversity of news sources, and be skeptical of what they read and watch. Governments should promote news literacy and strong professional journalism in their societies.
- today we talked about the blog we are working on
- The elaborate discussion about the blog entry made the students more confident and open about their works. Students could have a clear idea of what prof is expecting from them on the blog entry. It is essential to have a detailed discussion about the assignment contents during a class.
- I feel like technology is just a gateway for disinformation to happen. Nowadays, with the help of the internet and social media, people can easily spread false information. With just one click, it can reach people which may cause others to believe it. We should worry about it since there will be people who might believe it and spread it further. It can also alter someone's opinion about a certain topic. Lastly, anyone who has access to the internet can be responsible for disinformation.
- I talked about the group assignment with my team members. We talked about what topic to choose recently about the war between Russia and Ukraine.
- the Internet plays a role in combatting misinformation because the news and newspapers can be influence by the government
- With technology, it is easier to spread information whether it is credible or not. Due to globalization, there is controversy on the spread of global media, because they provide info on news or situations around the world without really being in the local environment. So, yes, we need to worry about the spread of misinformation through technology, because everyone is responsible. Everyone is on social media. So with important news, fact check or blockchain is needed to identify if the source is true or not
- Was how technology impacts what misinformation we are exposed to.
- Regarding misinformation, it's difficult to try and weigh a heavier responsibility on just one party. Everyone has an equal responsibility. For instance, schools (like high schools or elementary schools) should guide students in identifying more reliable sources of information. As for the designers: putting people into bubbles through the algorithm puts a filter on someone's reality, which can only validate misinformation. Ultimately, we want to avoid an Orwellian situation, I think.
- Today I learned about how technology play role in combatting disinformation, we need to worry about it as it is going to effect us in so many ways as we blindly believe these days. we can also see how there are are many false information spread on the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. We can try to prevent it by making algorithms which detects false information and removes them from web..
- The most important thing I learned today is some ways that technology can help tackle misinformation. Misinformation is a cause for concern because false information can be used to make larges groups of people act in a particular way to promote self-interest. Technology can be used to trace false information through background checks and origins checks. Notifying the public about the falsehood of information will help create awareness of the prevalence of misinformation and help people filter more thoroughl
- In the breakout rooms, we concluded a point where we are have to be self responsible for the information we get from Social media, or any technological based information. We have to filter out what is correct and what is false.
- Today, we have discussed about the assignments that professor is going to post how to do and all. Later on we have breakout session about the technology that helps us to support of our work. And also about what is the combatting disinformation of that technology.
- To be wary of information that we read. As technology advances, it can act as a sort of firewall to filter out information. It can also act as a shield against disinformation. At the same time it is the person who is viewing the information ho is responsible to fact check the information that they are reading. The host should also fact check the information that they hold on their website.
- AI can be used to combat disinformation. So, if we can develop a AI-based scanner that read all information from the users on social media website, it can be used to ban user's posts before they harm someone.
- Check out the web-based group discussion forum in the "Assignments" section of the UR course to find your group for web-based assignments. Also I watched the video given by the instructor on the hacking of Russia
- Today again mr.heptins extended the due date more for two days. It was very thankful for him to do so. We also discussed important topics in the breakout rooms as well related to our course.
- Dr. Happening wore a zoom friendly shirt. He got banned from Twitter. Event is coming up on facebook. We learned out group discussions information.
- I learned more about the assignments that I will have to accomplish for the future. This includes changes to their due dates and their descriptions.
- Technology can play assistant role in combating disinformation
- We discussed how technology can play a role in combatting disinformation. I learnt that the platform that posts the information should have the responsibility to filter the false information and also the person viewing it should have the knowledge weather the information is false or true.
- That determining how technology can confront misinformation isn't a straightforward question. This is because it's really hard to determine who's responsibility it is to do so. Is it the tech companies? Government? Individuals? Or group though it really fell on all parties to have a plan to address it. So tech companies should continue to label misinformation but people also need to be able to spot it on their own.
- The most important thing that I learned today is that Technology has altered the normal workplace and has become a huge part of our daily life. People want the most up-to-date technology, whether it's the newest smartphone or the newest automobile model. We should improve our professional technology if we are continuously updating our personal technology. Technology in the workplace is critical for a company's smooth and effective operation.
- I found the discussions regarding the blog entry to be very helpful.
- technongy such as phylon can use analyze large amount information some company use that to send the users the adds that conation fake information. It is legally but if we can be aware of that it is not a problem
The most difficult thing for me to understand:
- I don't seem to understand the reasons individuals decide to take part in information theft, giving away people's private information even thought it might be for a huge amount of money, it is still a stupid act which in my opinion is just sad.
- I had sum technical issues with Zoom so could not hear properly.
The thing about which I would most like to know more:
- I would like to better understand the tradeoff that technology causes with respect to misinformation. Clearly, technology allows for a great deal of information to flow to nearly anybody, yet it can cause considerable misinformation. Given that, prior to technology, access to both information and misinformation was much more limited, is the general public still better off due to technology?
- It's a tough debate to decide who is responsible for misinformation. I would say that its always the individuals job to fact check and make sure what they are reading is correct but it would be easier to start from the source and eliminate learning misinformation. But we cannot control people opinions on things and skeptical thoughts.
- I'd like to learn more about how tech. can impact our communication and how that can play into either our detriment or benefit.
- Where is the fine line between stoping disinformaiton and censorship? If we can utilize technology help stop the spread but what do you call disinformation in the first place? Does a fact need to be certified and have some type of proof behind it in order to be considered information? How can a system be implemented so that people are allowed to have freedom of speech but not be responsible for spreading misinformation to people?
- How can AI deal with disinformation?
- data and privacy
- I would like to know more about what other people think that web technologies should be in charge of in terms of stopping misinformation. I definitely think technology should have more responsibility with stopping misinformation but I'd like to know what specifically should be done.
- I would have loved to have heard more responses from the group discussions. It's very interesting to discuss who and what need to be responsible for disinformation, and what measures need to be taken to ensure that this filtration isn't biased.
- For the question whose responsibility is it in combating disinformation, I am not really sure if it's the person needing the information to make sure to fact check it or the technology. I feel like it's the person's responsibility to make sure the information it need is right, but at the same time the technology should also be making sure the information its providing is right. So, I'm not too sure whose responsibility is it.
- In the modern world, technology is being used at a vast scale to create disinformation. I would like to know more about how technology can be used to combat disinformation. We all commonly use social media such as Facebook, Twitter etc. and these platforms are notoriously famous for misleading information or disinformation. One thing that I believe can help in combating disinformation is use of blockchain technology to track the processes and information and provide transparency to the users.
- In today's lecture, Prof talked about source I want to know more and more about source , like how it is used in information technology.
- I am more interested in knowing the fact about the Russian's invasion on ukraine and its a topic of interest nowadays this is what that should stop and there should be no world war
- How does technology change the way we think?
- How does AI algorithms stops amplification of disinformation on social media.
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