Cognitive Distortions and Democratic Failures:
The Impact of Fake News on Democratic Politics
WORKSHOP 27-28 May 2021 Online (Zoom)
SCHEDULE
To register contact enrico.biale@uniupo.it
14.00 -14.10
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti (University of Piemonte Orientale)
Opening Remarks
14.10 - 15.00
Simon Blackburn (Cambridge University)
Fighting Conspiracy Theory
15.00 - 16.20
Marianna Bergamaschi Ganapini (Union College)
Beyond Harm: a New Ethical Framework for Social Media
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Paolo Bodini (University of Milano)
Political Knowledge, Political Sophistication, and Epistemic Insouciance. Facets of an Institutional Challenge
16.20 - 16.40
Short Break
16.40 - 18.00
Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (Birmingham University)
Exceptionalism at the Time of COVID-19: Where Nationalism Meets Irrationality
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Gianfranco Pellegrino (Luiss University)
Climate Denialism is not Fake News
May 27
May 28
09.30 - 10.50
Massimo Leone (University of Torino)
Digital Pinocchio: The Semiotics of Deep Fake
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Tommaso Piazza (University of Pavia)
Consuming Fake News: Can we do Any Better?
10.50 - 11.00
Short Break
11.00 - 11.50
Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham University)
Unshakeable Identity Beliefs
11.50 - 13.10
Carlo Burelli (University of Genova)
A Civil War of Information: A Realist Assessment of Fake News
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Patrizia Pedrini (University of Siena)
Fake New Consuming and the Desire to Feel Smart
13.10 - 14.30
Lunch Break
14.30 - 15.50
Elisa Piras (Sant’Anna Pisa) and Jacopo Marchetti (University of Firenze)
Investigating the Unreasonable Democratic Public: How Fake News Affect Public Opinion
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Deven Burks (University of Luxemburg)
Is Deliberative Democracy Prey to Cognitive Distortions?
15.50 - 16.00
Short break
16.00 - 16.50
Mario De Caro (Roma 3 University)
Libertarianism, Paternalism, and Autonomy
16.50 - 17.00