Dezimatrix has a goal to foster and inspire science communication on the topic of online disinformation across different fields of study.
This is a very ambitious goal with lots of pitfalls and dead ends to overcome and dodge with a very rewarding outcome for the whole society if executed well and with a bit of luck. When thinking about where to start, we decided to start with the basics and work our way up through the reputation of our information service. We understand that we can’t rely only on top researchers and claim their abstracts and preprints for sharing in our research community. To gain traction we need a target group of researchers whom we can already provide the highest added value and be useful for. This initial target group is the producers of gray literature at universities with academic research projects and graduate thesis, because this is where most of research on the subject of disinformation takes place nowadays. It’s also the biggest resource of future specialists and top researchers that Dezimatrix can grow with. We invite faculty staff and students for cooperation on the online disinformation, information operations and counterfeit reality topics. If you are a faculty member responsible for graduation thesis, become our Honorary Fellow ambassador and share the Dezimatrix topic and resources with your students. We will help you to source thesis topics, mentors and thesis opponents for your students as well as be a solid source of information for their research. If you are a student working on a graduation thesis, join our Dezimatrix community as a Fellow or Active Fellow and share your sources with us or find new interesting sources curated by Dezimatrix for your own research. Join us at Dezimatrix, become a Dezimatrix Fellow and help us on our mission. The Dezimatrix Team https://www.dezimatrix.org/
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Dezimatrix is a non-profit interdisciplinary research hub providing information infrastructure to foster science communication and inspiration among researchers in the field of online disinformation, information operations and counterfeit reality.
We are built around the Dezimatrix Fellowship program and three stages of information discovery, review and dissemination. Abstracts of inspirational papers and resources get shared by The Dezimatrix Active Fellows in Dezimatrix discussion group on Facebook where it gets commented, scrutinized and voted for in Dezimatrix Fellow Review process. The most interested research work distilled from the earlier Dezimatrix Fellow Review process will be published in Dezimatrix Newsletter Digest reaching Dezimatrix Fellow researches around the world. Feedback gained from Dezimatrix Fellows on the content in Dezimatrix Newsletter Digest will be used for sourcing speakers for the annual Dezimatrix conference. The Dezimatrix Conference is a platform to meet in person and network with other fellow researches to inspire cooperation. Join us at Dezimatrix, become a Dezimatrix Fellow and help us on our mission. The Dezimatrix Team https://www.dezimatrix.org/ Our vision and mission is large but we believe that to succeed we need to stay focused on the one thing that we as information specialists and librarians can do best – to be the information infrastructure service for interdisciplinary science communication.
Dezimatrix is a non-profit attempt for interdisciplinary research hub covering the online disinformation, information operations and counterfeit reality. To stay relevant we are designed to well fit with other existing organizations and movements that follow similar path - after all Dezimatrix is about cooperation, so we encourage you to get in touch with us so we can be of better service to you. Actually our whole model of work, which we call The Dezimatrix Fellowship, is based on cooperation. Fellows are Dezimatrix members who range from passive Fellow members using the Dezimatrix complimentary information service to Active Fellows who help to shape the content produced by Dezimatrix to Honorary Fellows who are the Dezimatrix ambassadors. The only rule that limits us from cooperation is that we aim to stay apolitical. We understand that disinformation is the vehicle of politics, but we are here not to make politics, we are here to help to make the roads better so nobody comes to harm when politicians attempt to drive their disinformation vehicles on it. We need your help, become a Dezimatrix Fellow and help us to bridge the research verticals and inspire the future. Join us at Dezimatrix, become a Dezimatrix Fellow and help us on our mission. The Dezimatrix Team https://www.dezimatrix.org/ The Dezimatrix project is an attempt to create an interdisciplinary hub to support and inspire holistic approach to research of online disinformation and information operations.
Disinformation is nothing new, it has been around throughout the human history, but the rise of new online technologies makes it highly scalable, well targeted and amplified which creates an unprecedented risk to democracy. The rise of fake news and counterfeit reality in interconnected global environment made it to 10 top predictions for 2018 and beyond as presented by Gartner. According to Daryl Plummer, vice president & Gartner Fellow, by 2022 the majority of individuals in mature economies will consume more false information than true information and counterfeit reality will overtake reality. We believe that this phenomenon requires more than just being a subject of retrospective media studies. To prepare for the future and build solid walls of resistance to well financed and motivated bad actors operating on scalable online platforms is a cat-and-mouse game. It requires a joint research effort across fields and borders in this paradigm shifting space. Our task is to create an information infrastructure hub and help to bridge the research verticals. The project initiated at Division of Information and Library Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. We are information specialists and librarians and with Dezimatrix we would like to pay our dues to society. With solid librarian work we aim to improve and inspire science communication in the fight against online disinformation and counterfeit reality. We can’t do it alone and we need your help. Join us at Dezimatrix, become a Dezimatrix Fellow and help us on our mission. Your Team of Dezimatrix https://www.dezimatrix.org/ |
The Dezimatrix TeamTeam at Division of Information and Library Studies at Faculty of Art, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic ArchivesCategories |