Toward a better informed world: How can research help?
CIBAR Conference, 10th – 12th November 2019
Courthouse Shoreditch Hotel, London, U.K.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Sunday, 10th November
19.00
Welcome reception
Monday, 11th November
09.00 – 09.30
09.30 – 10.00
Registration and coffee
Opening of conference
Santanu Chakrabarti (BBC World Service), Paul Tibbitts (RFE/RL), Allen Cooper (Allen Cooper Associates)
Welcome and keynote addresses
10.00 – 12.30
The misinformation problem: How bad is it? Is it getting better or worse?
Trust In Media – How much and what drives it? Dawn Royal, Gallup
Fake News And Disinformation Online: Opinion polls conducted in 28 EU Member States
Marco Pelucci, Kantar
Fake News (details to follow)
BBC World Service
Disinformation, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying in Africa: Exploratory Findings from the MIL Index Study
Dennis Reineck, DW Academy
Disinformation and/or misinformation shared on WhatsApp
Shakuntala Banaji, Ram Bhat, LSE
Ways of Knowing RT’s Twitter Audiences: Data science meets social science
Alistair Willis, Bertie Vidgen, Marie Gillespie, Open University
Finding media you can trust – examples from Nigeria, Myanmar and Iraq
BBC Media Action
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.30
Engaging the disengaged, the disaffected and the underserved
Who is and who isn’t engaging with the ABC and what are the triggers and barriers?
Samantha Hodgson, ABC
Context is King: If you want them to use your content, you need to deliver it in their context.
Rosina Barbanera, DW
Impact of Studio Kalangou’s radio broadcasts on women’s rights in Niger
Sacha Meuter, Fondation Hirondelle
Understanding women and girls, their lives and priorities and media habits in developing markets
BBC Media Action
Who runs the world? GIRLS do!
Yara Dweik, DW
15.30 – 16.00
16.00 – 17.00
Coffee
(Currently empty)
17.15 – 18.15
CIBAR Annual General Meeting
Evening: Dinner. Venue and time TBC
Tuesday, 17th April
09.00 – 10.30
Is the world now better or worse informed?
Access to digital news in Pakistan
Joe Davies, BBC World Service, Hugh Hopestone, Hopestone Research
Do mass media campaigns survive scientific scrutiny? The results of two RCTs
Roy Head, DMI
Using AI to handle the volume and complexity of social media in Cambodia and Libya
BBC Media Action
The role of public opinion research in highly contested national elections in the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine
Nino Japaridze, Edison Research
Immigration population innumeracy
Hayk Gyuzalyan, CMC
10.30 – 11.00
11.00 – 13.00
Coffee
Panel: A new questionnaire for USAGM: Presentation and discussion. Details TBC
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 16.00
How do we measure all of this? And what do we do with it?
Double Trouble: Dealing with Duplication in Digital Data
Tom Morgan, Tapestry
What counts? – World Café on digital metrics
Dora Hemmerich, DW
Evaluating Digital Platforms In The Round: the Value Analysis Model In Practice
Marie Gillespie and Colin Wilding, Open University
How our impact measurement work supports programming
BBC Media Action
Measuring success on digital and social media platforms
Marie Gillespie, Open University, Hélène Rèze, France 24
16.00 – 16.30
Coffee
16.30 – 17.30
Towards a charter for action
Details to follow.
17.30
End of Conference.