Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology

Sylvia Chan-Olmsted, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) Media Production, Management, and Technology professor and director of consumer media research, and UF Computer & Information Science Professor My T. Thai have received a National Science Foundation Grant for $930,000 to support research on “Information Integrity: A User-Centric…

Janet Coats, managing director of UF’s Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology, has been selected to selected to serve as an advisor on the new Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI). Research executives have raised nearly $3 million to launch this independent policy research center focused  on global…

Janet Coats, managing director of UF’s Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology, is quoted in “DeSantis Campaign’s Use of Fake Images Against Trump Part of AI ‘Arms Race’” published in the Tampa Bay Times on June 14. The article focuses on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political campaign’s apparent use…

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) and Levin College of Law today announced that Mónica Guzmán has been named the inaugural McGurn Fellow for Media Integrity and the Fight Against Disinformation. The fellowship, funded through a $2 million commitment from UF alumni Linda and Ken McGurn,…

Seungahn Nah’s curiosity hooked him on the path of research and took him from an internship in South Korea’s National Assembly in the mid-1990s to pursue academia in the United States. “I enjoy being curious about something new,” said Nah, a Journalism professor, the inaugural Dianne Snedaker Chair in Media…

This column originally appeared on the Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology website.  With the reality of Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter setting in, many individuals, news outlets and communities are left in the wreckage of the social media giant. It has served the world as the preeminent…

A new study has found that two proprietary machine-learning models from Amazon and Google performed better than traditional supervised machine-learning algorithms to understand the inherent meaning of consumer conversations. The findings by Yang Feng, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Advertising associate professor in artificial intelligence for the…

Seungahn Nah, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Dianne Snedaker Chair in Media Trust and Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology research director, will deliver an invited talk entitled, “Rethinking the Algorithmic Public Sphere: Artificial Intelligence (AI,) Journalism, and Democracy,” to the Data Science Group at the…

Seungahn Nah will join the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFCJC) this fall as the inaugural Dianne Snedaker Chair in Media Trust and Research Director for the Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology (CTMT). The Chair in Media Trust is funded through an endowment by UFCJC…

This story, written by Alisson Clark, originally appeared in UF News on June 10, 2021. Illustration by Allie Schutt. When a fictional female journalist appears on screen, chances are she’s about to sleep with one of her sources. It’s a trope that infuriates actual women in news media — and…

The UF Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology has named five UF Trust Consortium Scholars for 2021-2022 who exemplify its commitment to working across disciplines to examine ways trust is being eroded and how it can be restored. The work of these scholars ranges from examining the ways humans…

Roma people living in France, driving around in white vans, were kidnapping women and children. Or that’s what social media posts on Facebook and SnapChat wanted French citizens to believe. That dissemination of misinformation in April 2019 led to mobs attacking Roma with knives and sticks and burning their cars.…