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SUMMARY:Lecture Series Russia´s war, Ukraine’s resistance | “Hey, Goo
 gle, are there US biolabs in Ukraine? Mykola Makhortykh
DESCRIPTION:The current lecture series is aimed at revealing some of the a
 spects that pre-defined and framed the current occasions. On the one hand,
  the lectures will present the development of Ukrainian identity, nation a
 nd sovereignty in different historical context and under various, often co
 ntradicting factors. On the other hand, important part of the series is to
  show how Russia attempted to influence the country from several angles, o
 ften using media, culture and religion as tools of spreading narratives ha
 rmful for Ukrainian nation-building. "Hey, Google, are there US biolabs in
  Ukraine? AI-driven systems as a means of facilitating and countering the 
 spread of disinformation about the war in Ukraine" – Mykola Makhortykh A
 I-driven systems, such as search engines or conversational agents, play an
  increasingly important role in today's high-choice media environments. By
  prioritising information sources or generating responses to user queries,
  these systems become information gatekeepers which influence how the publ
 ic around the world understands specific issues and phenomena. However, it
  is often hard to understand how these systems make decisions about repres
 enting specific subjects, particularly when these subjects are heavily con
 tested and targeted with disinformation, and whether there is a risk of th
 em amplifying false narratives instead of countering them.  To addres
 s this question, the lecture will look at how different AI-driven systems 
 dealt with disinformation about the war in Ukraine in 2022 and discuss met
 hodological approaches for studying these systems’ performance in the co
 ntext of media and communication research. Mykola Makhortykh is an Alfred 
 Landecker lecturer at the Institute of Communication and Media Science, Un
 iversity of Bern, Switzerland. Before it, Mykola worked as postdoctoral re
 searcher on the project "Populist radical-right attitudes and political in
 formation behaviour. A longitudinal study of attitude development in high-
 choice information environments" (University of Bern & University Kobl
 enz-Landau). In his research, Mykola focuses on politics- and history-cent
 red information behaviour in online environments and how it is affected by
  the information retrieval systems, such as search engines and recommender
  systems. Among his recent publications News, threats, and trust: The role
  of threat perceptions in determining COVID-19 media effects on changing p
 olitical trust (2022, the Journal of Press/Politics, co-authored) and Hist
 orical memory and securitisation of the Russian intervention in Syria (cha
 pter in edited book Historical Memory and Foreign Policy, Palgrave Macmill
 an, 2022). Webex Link for the lecture series: https://uni-flensburg.webex.
 com/uni-flensburg/j.php?MTID=m23bf7fc163fbf2a04766ae6edc1fb67e
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