3º Workshop

Truth and Transparency in Communication: Interdisciplinary Approaches

The submission and publication guidelines are the same as those for the General Conference: consult them here.

To submit an article to this Workshop, please access the following link and include the code “WS_3” before the title of your contribution: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=icomta25.

Abstract

The crisis of credibility surrounding information accessed through various media outlets and social networks is not a new diagnosis. The problem of disinformation, decreasing adherence to truth, manipulation, and deception has become a serious issue that extends beyond communicators and journalists.

For example, the general public consumes information about scientific treatments and new medicines and makes decisions based on this data. The same applies to political matters, gender representations, and communication about legal and judicial issues. Across all these domains, doubts loom regarding the commitment to truth and transparency by those who communicate (a concern Bernard Williams refers to as truth and truthfulness).

This workshop invites reflections from professionals across diverse disciplines who are concerned with truth and transparency in communication. Topics range from the use of artificial intelligence and the opacity of its informational sources, to efforts that undermine trust in scientific information (such as anti-vaccine movements or climate change denial), and the way certain linguistic practices (e.g., excessive use of superlatives) distort the actual efficacy of medicines or treatments. Discussions will also address how representations in the press homogenize groups that are, in reality, highly diverse.

Additionally, the workshop will explore how some fields have adopted convoluted language (as seen in legal communication), which appears to undermine the public’s right to accurate information. It will also examine mechanisms that facilitate the spread of disinformation, such as emotional manipulation and cognitive biases.

These are just some of the themes that will be addressed at this session, where communicators, philosophers, psychologists, lawyers, and others will discuss the crisis of commitment to truth and transparency in communication.

Topics

  • Disinformation
  • Deception
  • Truth
  • Post-truth
  • Truthfulness
  • Manipulation
  • Representation
  • Interdisciplinarity
General Academic Coordinator
  • Carlos G. Patarroyo G., Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
Technical Coordinator
  • Andrés Forero, Uniminuto (Colombia)
Organizing Committee
  • Carlos Andrés Muñoz, University of Cincinnati (U.S.A.)
  • Alejandro Murillo, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Scientific Committee
  • David Hernández, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
  • Danghelly Zúñiga, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
  • Lina Céspedes, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
  • Juan Raúl Loaiza, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile)
  • Alejandro Murillo, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia