Join our free Dublin Core, ASIS&T Webinar with Amelia Acker to explore how metadata is exploited to craft deceptive narratives on social media. Learn about tactics used by bad actors and the importance of responsible data management.

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On the Duality of Metadata: Potential Uses and Abuses of Provenance Information

June 13, 2024 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)

https://www.dublincore.org/webinars/2024/duality-of-provenance-metadata/

In the past decade, critical internet studies scholars and disinformation researchers have discovered how metadata can be exploited to craft deceptive narratives and influence public discourse on platforms. This talk explores some tactics used by bad actors to manipulate social media platforms and evade content moderation by obfuscating provenance information; highlighting the importance of metadata in identifying disinformation and current responses managing the risks of deceptive content spread across platforms. Provenance information serves as the foundation for responsible data management, data exchange and reuse. But as platforms evolve, this same metadata can be manipulated by bad actors to craft deceptive narratives and spread disinformation.

This is a DCMI Webinar organized by the Dublin Core Education Committee and moderated by Education Committee co-chair Karen Wickett. For free registration use the registration code DCMI25.

Speaker: Amelia Acker – University of Texas at Austin (https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/people-details?PersonID=302)

Dr. Amelia Acker is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information, where she directs the MSIS program and leads the Critical Data Studies Lab. Currently, Acker is a Fellow of the Governor Bill Daniel Professorship in Archival Enterprise and a recipient of the ACM History and Archiving Fellowship for 2024-2025. Her research on data archives and preservation has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Acker’s current research agenda focuses on cultures of mobile computing, emerging digital preservation models, data literacy, personal information management, and metadata standards for scientific data management.

Visit https://www.dublincore.org/webinars/2024/duality-of-provenance-metadata/ to register for the webinar.

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