Time：2023.6.1（Thursday）14：00-16：00
Venue：Songjiang Campus Building 2, Room 220
Speaker：Associate Professor Wu Lianren, School of Business Administration, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics
Host: Associate Professor Luo Lijuan
Topic：Research on Information Epidemic Boosting Governance Based on Public Social Media Involvement Intervention
Abstract:
The phenomenon of "information epidemic" refers to the dangerous phenomenon where a large amount of false information in the cyberspace forms an overload effect after a major infectious disease triggers a large-scale epidemic, and it is mixed with correct information to spread on a large scale, causing indistinguishable danger. Faced with the challenge of the "information epidemic", media platforms have adopted measures such as publishing authoritative information, opening channels to refute rumors, and regulating platform management. Management agencies have also attempted intervention measures such as technical blockade, legal and regulatory constraints, administrative penalties, and educational persuasion. However, the harm of the "information epidemic" has not diminished. Focusing on exploring governance measures to address false information from the perspective of psychological science, such as improving netizens' information literacy and cognitive resistance to manipulation. This study aims to understand and guide the objective influencing factors and mechanisms of large-scale public social media involvement from the perspective of psychological cognitive processing of "people" embedded in the cyberspace, and explore methods and theories of false information promoting intervention and governance.
Guest Speaker
Wu Lianren, a doctoral student jointly trained by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Arizona State University in the United States, is currently an associate professor at the School of Business Administration at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. His research interests include social media information dissemination and the governance of false information in cyberspace. Published more than 30 related research papers, and led the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Program and General Programs.
