Unfolding Our Shared Future Talk Series
Aberystwyth University Public Event
9 October, 6-7.45pm
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Rydym yn byw mewn oes lle mae twyllwybodaeth a newyddion ffug yn cael eu lledaenu ledled y byd trwy’r rhyngrwyd a’r cyfryngau cymdeithasol ar gyflymder brawychus . Yn y flwyddyn etholiad hanesyddol hon, mae gan dwyllwybodaeth y grym i darfu ar ddiogelwch etholiadau, tanseilio ymddiriedaeth y cyhoedd yn y broses ddemocrataidd, a sbarduno aflonyddwch cymdeithasol.
Ymunwch ag arbenigwyr o ddiwydiant y cyfryngau ac academyddion i drafod yr her o ddiogelu cywirdeb adroddiadau newyddion nawr ac yn y dyfodol.
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We live in an age where disinformation and fake news are disseminated across the globe at an alarming pace through the internet and social media. In this historic election year, disinformation has the power to disrupt the security of elections, undermine public trust in the democratic process, and spark social unrest.
Join media industry experts and academics to discuss the challenge of protecting the integrity of news reporting now and into the future.
About the Speakers
Shayan Sardarizadeh is a journalist at BBC Verify, covering disinformation, conspiracy theories, verification, AI, open source investigations and extremism.
Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan are Associate Editors at The Washington Post. Mary and her husband Kevin were The Post’s co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City and London. They won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their coverage of the Mexican criminal justice system. They (with Post photographers) were finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for stories about difficulties facing women around the world. They have written three books together: Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (2015, New York Times bestseller); The Prison Angel (2005) and Trump’s Trials (2020). They received the George Polk Award in 1998, and have Awards from the Overseas Press Club. Sullivan, reporting from Saudi Arabia, was part of a Washington Post team that was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Jordan also won The Washington Post’s Eugene Meyer Award for distinguished service, based on the principles of the paper’s legendary former owner: Tell the truth for the public good and always be fair. Jordan is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump (2020), and was the founding editor and moderator of Washington Post Live, which organizes current affairs forums and debates. Sullivan has spent time as The Post’s chief foreign correspondent, deputy foreign editor, and Sunday and features editor. They have covered many of the biggest stories of recent years, both domestic and from dozens of countries on six continents.
About the Host
Professor Tim Woods has recently returned to his key role as Professor of English Literature and American Studies after having for several years shouldered the additional responsibilities of head of the Department of English and Creative Writing, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and for the past six years, Pro Vice-Chancellor and member of the University’s Executive. Tim’s main teaching and research interests are Twentieth-Century writing; African literatures in English; Contemporary British and American poetry; modernist and postmodernist writing; and literary theory, especially Marxism and poststructuralism. He has a particular interest in the relationship of ethics to literature, as well as representations of history and memory in twentieth-century literature.
This talk is part of a series, titled ‘Unfolding Our Shared Future’, which is delivered by the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association and the host universities with the support of the US Embassy in London.
