How crucial is credibility online?

Credibility is a crucial concept in communication science and received severely increased attention, again, with CCS. That is, it serves everybody as a signpost to navigate the web whilst also being scrutinized by some via (AI-driven) signals that suggest trustworthiness. Cuihua (Cindy) Shen is Professor of Communication and Co-Director of the Computational Communication Research Lab at the Department of Communication at UC Davis. In this episode, she, Emese Domahidi (Professor at TU Ilmenau) and Mario Haim (Professor at LMU Munich) talk about the concept of credibility and its particular role with mis- and disinformation. Of course, we also talk AI and what credibility is worth when a machines can generate whatever we've learnt to be trustworthy.

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P.P.S.: This is the last episode of this season. We're off to a (longer? ;-)) summer pause but look forward to being in touch soon!