The second series of webinars dedicated to transformations in the media ecosystem begins this Tuesday, 15 September. The first webinar will focus on the introduction of AI into journalistic practice. Register here
Researcher Ana Pinto Martinho, whose work focuses on this area, will moderate a discussion with experts Luís Galrão and Filipe Pardal. Galrão is responsible for fact-checking at Lusa News Agency, while Pardal is responsible for operations at Polígrafo.
The webinar series, promoted by IBERIFIER and produced by Portuguese Centre for Professional Training for Journalists, CENJOR, brings together three sessions dedicated to the main challenges and transformations shaping the contemporary media ecosystem.
All sessions take place at 6pm (one hour ahead in Spain) via the Zoom platform and address different dimensions of the current media landscape. Participation is free of charge and includes a certificate, subject to registration with CENJOR. Taken together, the webinars provide a space for discussion and knowledge-sharing on the future of information, contributing to greater media and scientific literacy and to a better understanding of the phenomena transforming the production, circulation and consumption of information.
Following the session on artificial intelligence, the next webinar, on 22 September, will focus on new media trends and will centre on an IBERIFIER study that will be published shortly. The panel will feature media researcher Miguel Crespo, who is also Director of CENJOR, and Alicia de Lara González, a journalism professor at the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH) in Alicante and coordinator of the scientific research.
The series will conclude with a session on science and disinformation, on 29 September. Also based on a recent study by the IBERIFIER teams, the panel will discuss the findings on the spread of disinformation in the field of science. The session will be moderated by researcher Dina Margato, with Miguel Paisana and Pedro Caldeira Pais, researchers at the Communication Observatory, OberCom, as guest speakers. Miguel Paisana coordinated the research.
