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Next Thursday, April 12.
At 6pm.
In the Edmund Burke Theatre in Trinity College Dublin.
A seminar about “fake news”, chaired by RTE’s Bryan Dobson.
RTÉ writes:
Chaired by broadcaster Bryan Dobson, this seminar will ask: what is fake news?; how can we identify it?; what can be done to combat it?; and how can we ensure our valued news services are trustworthy, and not fake?
Participating speakers include Sile Lane (Head of International Campaigns and Policy at Sense About Science), Aine Kerr (cofounder of Nevalabs), Kate Shanahan (Head of Journalism, DIT), Eugenia Siapera (Professor at DCU), Fionnan Sheahan (Editor of the Irish Independent) *cough*, Dr Linda Kiernan (Lecturer at Trinity College), RTÉ, and Ian Power (Exectutive Director of Spunout.ie)….
To register for tickets to this free event email audiencecouncil@rte.ie. Strictly two tickets per person.
FIGHT!
Fake News: How True? An event of the RTÉ Audience Council (RTE)
Don’t let the hoodie and the smile fool you.
“Seminars in UCD with third-year students on the meaning of a republic in the early 1920s. A latecomer, who said she couldn’t get parking, temporarily interrupts spirited contributions. She lives in Milltown, a 10-minute walk away. The mind boggles.”
Historian Diarmaid Ferriter, there.
Fair point though, in fairness.
Or puritan, de Valera-ian petulance.
YOU decide.
Diarmaid Ferriter (My Education Week, Irish Times)
UPDATE:
Walking route. Estimated time: 28 minutes.
Driving route: Estimated time: 10 minutes.
(Google Maps)
