Webinars & Interviews

Interview with Mr.Ameer Pichan, School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Australia by Dr Lajish V.L

(Part I : Cyber Security - Threats and Challenges)

Produced by : EMMRC, Calicut

Interview with Mr.Ameer Pichan, School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Curtin University of Technology, Australia by Dr Lajish V.L (Part II : Cyber Security - Educational and Employment Opportunities)

Produced by : EMMRC, Calicut

Two-day International Awareness Webinar on Understanding Misinformation: Intervention Strategies and Ideas, University of Calicut, 19th -20th Feb. 2021.

Day 1 , Inaugural Session

Inauguration

Prof. (Dr.) M.K.Jayaraj, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, University of Calicut

Guest of Honour

Prof.(Dr.) Rajan Gurukkal. P.M

Vice-Chairman, Kerala State Higher Education Council

Keynote Address

Sri. Mir Mohammad Ali IAS, Secretary to Chief Minister

Invited Talk -1 :

Sri. Venkitesh Ramakrishnan

Senior Associate Editor, FRONTLINE

Topic:Media Literacy and Critical Thinking

Invited Talk -2 :

Prof. Kanchan Kaur

Dean, Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, Bangalore

Topic: Making sense of the news is more important than ever/Why we fall for fake news

Two-day International Awareness Webinar on Understanding Misinformation: Intervention Strategies and Ideas, University of Calicut, 19th -20th Feb. 2021.

Day 1 , Session 2

Invited Talk -3 :

Mr.Eoghan Sweeny

Independent Consultant and Trainer

Topic: OSINT in Fact Checking and Verification

Invited Talk -4 :

Christine Czerniak PhD

Technical Officer, Global Infectious Hazards Preparedness Department, WHO Health Emergency Programme

Topic: Infodemic Management for Better Health

Two-day International Awareness Webinar on Understanding Misinformation: Intervention Strategies and Ideas, University of Calicut, 19th -20th Feb. 2021.

Day 2 , Session 1

Invited Talk -5 :

Ms. Irene Jay Liu

Google News Lab Lead, APAC, Singapore

Topic: How Google News Initiatives is Fighting Against Misinformation

Invited Talk -6 :

Dr. Deepak Padmanabhan

Queen's University Belfast, UK

Panel Member

Two-day International Awareness Webinar on Understanding Misinformation: Intervention Strategies and Ideas, University of Calicut, 19th -20th Feb. 2021.

Day 2 , Session 2

Invited Talk -7 :

Sri. Pratik Sinha, Co-founder, Alt News

Topic: Elements of Fact Checking and Verification

Invited Talk -8 :

Dr. S.R. Sanjeev

Asst. Professor and Head, Dept. of Journalism, Mar Ivanios College, TVM

Topic: Information Epidemic: Roots and Manifests of Virality

Panel Discussion: Break-the-Fake

Members:

Sri.Manoj K Das, Editor, Mathrubhumi.

Dr. Deepak Padmanabhan, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Mr. Shajan Kumar, Faculty, Times School of Media, Bennett University, Greater Noida

Sri.Sunil Prabhakar, Consultant, Online Mathrubhumi

Moderator:

Dr.Lajish V.L. University of Calicut

Emotion Cognizance Improves Fake News Identification

Presented at 24th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS) 2020, South Korea.

• Anoop K, Deepak P, & Lajish V L (2019)
  Emotion Cognizance Improves Fake News Identification
  Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10365

Interview : Dr.Deepak P, Lajish V.L and Anoop K

on Break the Fake Project (Malayalam)

Interview with Mr.Samson Lopez iOS/Mac App Developer, London, UK by Dr Lajish V.L ( PART -I )

Produced by : EMMRC, Calicut

Interview with Mr.Samson Lopez iOS/Mac App Developer, London, UK by Dr Lajish V.L ( PART -II )

Produced by : EMMRC, Calicut

An invited talk at UL Space Club on Advances in Computing and Intelligent Systems

An invited talk at Chinmaya Arts and Science College for Women on Data Science Vs Break the Fake

Alan Turing Year 2012 :

Invited Talk : By Prof.(Dr.) Vineeth Paleri, NIT Calicut on

Computing Discipline

A Talk on Machine Learning for Societal Applications

by Prof.(Dr.) Nagabhushan, Director IIIT, Allahabad