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Disclaimer: This blog only shares news for informational purposes and is not connected to these events or organizations. For questions and concerns, kindly contact the authorized organizers (contact information will be included in the post below). Move.PH (Rappler's civic engagement arm) in partnership with the Senior High School-Leadership Development Program of Ateneo de Davao University, the Arrupe Office for Social Formation, and the Ignatian Spirituality Formation Office will be conducting a free webinar on the topic, "Fact-finding in vlogging" on October 7, 2022 (Friday), 1 PM. The webinar aims to educate on how to fact-check information presented in videos or vlogs. The speakers for this event are Gemma Mendoza, Rappler head of digital services; and Loreben Tuquero, Rappler researcher-writer. Register here: Registration link Please note that the registration is open until October 6, 5 PM. There are limited slots for registration. For those who are not able to...

The Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission (HRVVMC) in partnership with the Philippine Librarians Association Inc., Society of Filipino Archivist, Philippine Normal University Library and Information Science Alumni Association, University of the Philippines – School of Library and Information Studies, and Lyceum of the Philippines University – College of Arts and Sciences will conduct a free webinar, “Pen and Paper: Webinar on the Importance of Archives and Library in the age of disinformation” on September 23, 2022 (Friday), 9:45 AM to 4:00 PM via Zoom. The speaker for this free event is Dr. Francis M. Navarro, a graduate of the University of the Philippines at Diliman where he took his Bachelor of Arts degree in History. He pursued higher studies at the Universidad de Salamanca as a scholar of the Spanish government where he took his Doctorate in Archival Management. Aside from being an Assistant Professor of History at the Ateneo de Manila University, he is als...

The University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies ( UPSLIS ) will be hosting a free event on July 6, 2022 (Wednesday), 9:00 AM with the theme "Disinformation Studies without the Determinism: Work cultures and manipulation strategies of Filipino troll armies." The webinar will be streamed live on the UPSLIS Facebook page . About the speaker Prof. Jonathan Corpus Ong is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center. He is author of two books and over 25 journal articles in the areas of media ethics, digital politics, and the anthropology of humanitarianism. He is an engaged scholar with a long record of collaborating with human rights and humanitarian organizations, election integrity groups, and investigative journalists. Recently, he was named as one of 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2022, representing the discipline of communication studies. His ...