33.891, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing/Netherlands

Tue Mar 8 07:08:21 UTC 2022

LINGUIST List: Vol-33-891. Tue Mar 08 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.891, Calls: Cog Sci, Comp Ling, Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing/Netherlands

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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 02:07:32
From: Giovanni Cassani [g.cassani at tilburguniversity.edu]
Subject: 2nd TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium: Fact and Fiction, Trust and Distrust

Full Title: 2nd TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium: Fact and Fiction, Trust and Distrust 
Short Title: TSHD-DHS 

Date: 29-Jun-2022 - 30-Jun-2022
Location: Tilburg, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Giovanni Cassani
Meeting Email: g.cassani at tilburguniversity.edu
Web Site: https://www.digitalhumanitiestilburg.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2022 

Meeting Description:

How do we calibrate or modulate our (dis)trust when it comes to sources of
information, given limited resources of time and attention?  How do we decide
what sources and voices to trust in our present media landscape, where an 
unprecedented number of resources for (mis)information and entertainment is
available?   Why do people with different world views interpret the same data
differently, or have altogether different views on what constitutes factual
information in the first place? 

In our ‘post-truth age’, public opinion appears less influenced by objective
facts and more by personal beliefs. Companies, media, and influencers enter
into competition for capturing and retaining our attention.  In both online
and offline media, we see a blurring of the lines between factual and
fictional discourse.  Online echo chambers and algorithmic biases lead to a
pervasive influence of confirmation bias and filter bubbles. Increasing
political polarization and the mainstreaming of conspiracy thought amount to a
deep-seated distrust of groups outside of the own community, and of things as
they seem. In journalism, fact checking is often posed as an objective remedy
to this fake news crisis, while traditional gatekeepers like mainstream
journalistic media, experts, and scientists have lost some of their standing.
 The question of truth seems to increasingly be replaced by the question ‘who
tells the most compelling story?’ 

Times of rapid transformation can give us the opportunity to rethink our
fields of research and education as well as their main concepts and values.
With this event, we aim to answer such questions from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives. We invite speakers to present on a broad range of
topics including, but not limited to, the cognitive (e.g., studies of beliefs
and bias), arts and media (e.g., truth and fiction in literature, television
and film, or news websites), philosophical (e.g., the ontology and semantics
of fact and fiction), Artificial Intelligence (e.g., virtual reality;
algorithmic creativity; automatic analyses of discourse to trace polarization,
fake news, content featuring conspiracy theories and others) and
 communication and information studies (e.g., online misinformation; the role
of truth-finding on social media). Submitted papers should feature digital
humanities methods or include reflections on digital media and technologies. 

This two-day, hybrid symposium—part on-site at the campus of Tilburg
University, part online—brings together scholars from a range of disciplines,
including Philosophy, Culture Studies, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence,
Cultural, Literary and Media Studies, Communication and Information Sciences,
and Cognitive Science, to engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue on these
matters. The event includes keynotes, a range of talks, and a number of
specialist panels on Digital Humanities research. 

**Keynote speakers:**
Emar Maier (University of Groningen) 
Miriam Metzger (UC Santa Barbara) 
Martina Raponi (Willem de Kooning Academy) 
Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University)

Call for Papers:

Submit a 300-word anonymized abstract (excluding references), consisting of
the title and a short description of your proposed paper to Easychair
(https://easychair.org/cfp/DHT-2022) by April 15, 2022.

More information: https://www.digitalhumanitiestilburg.com/

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