Keynote Speakers
Prof. Amara Nadeem
University of Leeds · Wed 12 May, Auditorium
The Repair of Public Trust
Nadeem studies how audiences decide what to believe, drawing on a six-country panel study of news trust running since 2019.
Prof. Hiroshi Tanaka
Waseda University · Thu 13 May, Auditorium
Algorithmic Publics and the Limits of Voice
Tanaka works on recommender systems as civic infrastructure, combining large-scale log analysis with interviews inside the teams that build them.
Dr Nomsa Dlamini
University of Cape Town · Thu 13 May, Auditorium
Communicating Risk After the Pandemic
Dlamini's field trials with community health workers tested what moves behaviour when official messaging has been discredited.
Prof. Elena Márquez
Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Fri 14 May, Auditorium
Newsrooms with Machines
Márquez spent two years embedded in four European newsrooms adopting generative tools.
Plenary panels
Research access after the data lockdown
Four researchers and one regulator on what independent study of platforms looks like when the interfaces close.
Wed 12 May, 17:00 · Auditorium · Chair: Prof. Hiroshi Tanaka
Teaching communication in the age of synthetic media
Curriculum leads from five institutions on assessment, authorship and what employers now expect of graduates.
Thu 13 May, 17:45 · Auditorium · Chair: Dr Farah Idris