Rundown
Date: 6 February 2021 (Saturday)
Time: 8:45-16:30
| Time | Event |
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| 8:45 - 9:00 | Welcome Speech Professor Paul LEE Chairman of Conference Organizing Committee, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong Opening Remarks Professor Simon HO President, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| Panel 1: Susceptibility to Misinformation and Fake News Panel Chair: Dr. Shiru WANG (The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong) |
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Conflict among Experts, and Scientific Studies, as a Barrier to Remedying Misinformation Professor Derek J. KOEHLER Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Censored Contagion: How Information on the Coronavirus is Managed on Chinese Social Media Mr. Masashi CRETE-NISHIHATA Ms. Lotus RUAN Citizen Lab, University of Toronto |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Collective Emotional Susceptibility of Fake News in Social Movement Dr. Muk Yan WONG Department of Social Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Q&A |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | ~Break~ |
| Panel 2: Politics of Misinformation Panel Chair: Dr. Celine SONG (Hong Kong Baptist University) |
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| 10:35 - 10:55 | Triumphalism and Inconvenient Truth: National Self-Image in a Rising Power Dr. Haifeng HUANG Department of Political Science, The University of California, Merced |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | When Viruses and Misinformation Spread: the Singapore Context Dr. Edson C TANDOC Jr. Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | Regime Type, Internet Exposure and Perception of Government Misinformation in Asian Countries Dr. Shiru WANG Department of Social Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Q&A |
| 11:50 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Panel 3: How Fake is Fake? Panel Chair: Dr. Edson C TANDOC Jr. (Nanyang Technological University) |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 | The Semantics of Fake News How NLP and AI may Help us Identify Misinformation Dr. Charles LAM Department of English, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Is Fake News just Propaganda? Dr. M R.X. DENTITH Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai Campus) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | What Messages are Likely to be Shared? A Study on the Dissemination of Unverified Information in Social Media Professor Paul LEE, Dr. Keith CHEUNG, Dr. Clio WU School of Communication, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Q&A |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | ~Break~ |
| Panel 4: Misinformation in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong Panel Chair: Dr. M R.X. DENTITH (Beijing Normal University) |
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| 15:35 - 15:55 | Regulating Misinformation: Lessons from the “China Model” Dr. Celine SONG Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | The Limits of Law: The Legislation Against Misinformation in Greater China Dr. Sammy HU School of Communication, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Q&A |
| 16:30 | Closing Professor Lang KAO Director, Centre for Greater China Studies, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong |
All the time shown on the schedule are Hong Kong Time (HKT).
