Events

Location: Library First Floor Foyer

The AUS Library is delighted to host Supercharged by AI, an interactive poster exhibition that explores how AI-generated content is transforming the ways that media and information is produced, distributed and perceived.

Today, AI is being used to fabricate news, imitate reality, and influence public opinion in ways that are increasingly difficult to detect. Because these models are trained on biased data, they can reinforce stereotypes and have real-world consequences. How can we stay informed about this rapidly evolving technology?

Explore the exhibition in the Library's First Floor Foyer from Monday, September 8 to Thursday, October 23 and join a workshop to explore the issue more.

Location: Library Lib-011

Fake news has a long history despite coming to the fore of academic debates only recently. The current fake news epidemic is related to the rise in right-wing populism globally, while social media has been central to the rapid spread of misinformation and the corrosive influence of right-wing populist discourses thriving on online conspiracy theories and disinformation campaigns. But does this trend have identifiable historical antecedents? But does this trend have identifiable historical antecedents?

I argue that 1980s and 1990s Serbian nationalist propaganda, especially its deployment of pseudoscientific discourses on language with their underlying language ideologies, may be a direct antecedent and an instructive case study for our understanding of the current wave. The discussion is based upon a corpus of Serbian news published between 2003 and 2008, and the application of advanced methods such as exploratory factor analysis and topic modeling. The findings show that the Central South Slavic language conflict has been characterized by pseudoscientific argumentation deployed as (fake) news.

I suggest that there is a link between Central South Slavic ethnolinguistic contestation and contemporary Western far right discourses, contending that pseudoscientific argumentation is a major type of fake news in the service of illiberal causes and should be a central element in analyses of the phenomenon.

Join us as we learn about Professor Adnan’s research analyzing 1980s and 1990s Serbian nationalist propaganda, and its deployment of pseudoscientific discourses on language with their underlying language ideologies, as possible historical antecedents of the current wave of fake news.

Location: Library First Floor Foyer

The AUS Library is delighted to host Supercharged by AI, an interactive poster exhibition that explores how AI-generated content is transforming the ways that media and information is produced, distributed and perceived.

Today, AI is being used to fabricate news, imitate reality, and influence public opinion in ways that are increasingly difficult to detect. Because these models are trained on biased data, they can reinforce stereotypes and have real-world consequences. How can we stay informed about this rapidly evolving technology?

Explore the exhibition in the Library's First Floor Foyer from Monday, September 8 to Thursday, October 23 and join a workshop to explore the issue more.

Location: Library First Floor Foyer

The AUS Library is delighted to host Supercharged by AI, an interactive poster exhibition that explores how AI-generated content is transforming the ways that media and information is produced, distributed and perceived.

Today, AI is being used to fabricate news, imitate reality, and influence public opinion in ways that are increasingly difficult to detect. Because these models are trained on biased data, they can reinforce stereotypes and have real-world consequences. How can we stay informed about this rapidly evolving technology?

Explore the exhibition in the Library's First Floor Foyer from Monday, September 8 to Thursday, October 23 and join a workshop to explore the issue more.

Location: Library IC1

Do you like to read Arabic novels or Arabic books in general? Join this workshop to discover how to locate Arabic resources in the AUS library. 

Taught by Librarian Latifa Baali.

Location: Library First Floor Foyer

The AUS Library is delighted to host Supercharged by AI, an interactive poster exhibition that explores how AI-generated content is transforming the ways that media and information is produced, distributed and perceived.

Today, AI is being used to fabricate news, imitate reality, and influence public opinion in ways that are increasingly difficult to detect. Because these models are trained on biased data, they can reinforce stereotypes and have real-world consequences. How can we stay informed about this rapidly evolving technology?

Explore the exhibition in the Library's First Floor Foyer from Monday, September 8 to Thursday, October 23 and join a workshop to explore the issue more.