Toward a better informed world: How can research help?
CIBAR CONFERENCE, 10TH – 12TH NOVEMBER 2019
Courthouse Shoreditch Hotel, London, U.K.
Sunday, 10th November
18.30-20.30
Welcome reception in the Bowling Alley, Courthouse Hotel Shoreditch
Monday, 11th November
09.00-09.30
Registration
09.30
Opening and welcome
Paul Tibbitts, CIBAR Char; Santanu Chakrabarti, BBC World Service; Allen Cooper, Allen Cooper Associates
09.45
Keynote
Trends in Media Consumption: Challenges and Opportunities – Nic Newman, Senior Research Associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
SESSION 1: THE MISINFORMATION PROBLEM: HOW BAD IS IT? IS IT GETTING BETTER OR WORSE? (1)
CHAIR: WERNER NEVEN, DW
10.00
Trust in media – how much and what drives it
Dawn Royal, Gallup
10.15
Verification, duty, credibility: Fake news and the ordinary citizen
Minnie Kweon, Spana Solanki, BBC WS
10.30
Disinformation, hate speech and cyberbullying in Africa: Exploratory findings from the MIL Index Study
Dennis Reineck, DW Academy
10.45
Disinformation and/or misinformation shared on WhatsApp
Shakuntala Banaji, Ram Bhat, LSE
11.00-11.15
Coffee
SESSION 1: THE MISINFORMATION PROBLEM: HOW BAD IS IT? IS IT GETTING BETTER OR WORSE? (2)
CHAIR: WERNER NEVEN, DW
11.30
Ways of knowing RT’s Twitter audiences: Data science meets social science
Alistair Willis, Bertie Vidgen, Marie Gillespie, Open University
11.45
Finding media you can trust – examples from Nigeria, Myanmar and Iraq
Akunna Penny, BBC Media Action
12.00
Measuring Credulity and Scepticism: What do current measures show, and what should we be measuring?
Scott Michael, VOA
12.15
Questions and discussion
12.30-13.30
Lunch
SESSION 2: Engaging the disengaged, the disaffected and the underserved
CHAIR: Paul Tibbitts, RFE/RL
13.30
Defining impact in the Indo-Pacific
Samantha Hodgson, ABC
13.45
Context is king: If you want them to use your content, you need to deliver it in their context
Rosina Barbanera, DW
14.00
Empowering women in Niger: The Impact of Studio Kalangou’s radio broadcasts rights in Niger
Sacha Meuter, Fondation Hirondelle
14.15
Understanding women and girls, their lives and priorities and media habits in developing markets
Sanjib Saha, BBC Media Action
14.30
Who runs the world? Girls do
Yara Dweik, Leah Winnett, DW
14.45
Engaging the disengaged and the disaffected: A case study of audience research for media development programme design in Syria
Athanas Jamo, Susan Abbott, IPSOS/Cross-Pollinate Consulting
15.00
Questions and discussion
15.15-15.45
Coffee
SESSION 3: getting data collection right
CHAIR: franCk buge, TV5Monde
15.45
African opinion leaders: Who they are and how important are they?
Mohamed El-Kalchi, IMMAR
16.00
Catching the highway bandit: A story of quality control success in Cameroon
Matt Warshaw, D3
16.15
The Dynamics of Interview Falsification: An Exploratory Analysis
Merab Pachulia, Lucy Fylnn, GORBI
16.30
The role of public opinion research in highly contested national elections in the Republic of Georgia and Ukraine
Nino Japaridze, Edison
16.45-17.15
Questions and discussion
17.15-18.15: Cibar annual general meeting (cibar members only)
18:30: Cibar conference dinner.chambers 4&5, Courthouse shoreditch hotel
Tuesday, 14th November
SESSION 4: is the world now better or worse informed?
CHAIR: leah winnett, DW
09.00
Pakistan audience news needs and key challenges facing news organisations
Jim Davies, Hugh Hopestone, BBC WS/Edison Research
09.15
Do mass media campaigns survive scientific scrutiny? The results of two RCIs
Roy Head, DMI
09.30
Using AI to handle the volume and complexity of social media data in Cambodia and Libya
Emily Southall, BBC Media Action
09.45
Immigration population innumeracy
Hayk Gyuzalyan, CMC
10.00
Questions and discussion
10.30-11.00
Coffee
SESSION 5: Brave new world: modernising media consumption measures
11.00-12.00
A panel with Leah Ermarth (VOA), Betsy Henderson (RFA), Paul Tibbitts (RFE/RL)
Moderator: Eulynn Shiu, USAGM
If you watch live television programming on your mobile phone or YouTube on your flat-screen LCD, are you watching TV or using the internet? If you stream your favourite radio station on your iPad, are you listening to the radio or using the internet? Confounding questions for us–imagine how survey respondents react! The way people use and think about media has changed dramatically since the CIBAR core questionnaire was originally developed in 2010. Measuring TV viewing and radio listening is not as straightforward as it used to be. In this roundtable discussion, USAGM and its network research directors will share their ongoing effort to redesign the survey questionnaire, in pursuit of measuring cross-platform media use in a respondent-centric manner, significantly reducing the intellectual and time burden for survey participants.
12.00-13.00
Lunch
SESSION 6: How do we measure all of this? and what do we do with it?
CHAIR: santanu chakrabarti, BBC world
13.00
Fake news and disinformation online: Opinion polls conducted in 28 member states
Marco Pelucchi, KANTAR
13.15
InfoMigrants I: Assessing digital and social media platforms: A Value Analysis approach
Marie Gillespie, Colin Wilding, Open University
13.30
InfoMigrants II: Measuring value on digital and social media platforms: An interactive approach
Hélène Rezé, France Médias Monde
13.45
Double trouble: Dealing with Duplication in digital data
Tom Morgan, Tapestry
14.00
What Counts: World Café on digital metrics
Dora Hemmerich, DW
14.15
Digital news needs
Kevin Cowan, BBC WS
14.30
How our impact measurement work supports programming
Sally Gowland, BBC Media Action
14.45-15.15
Questions and discussion
15.15-15.45
Coffee
SESSION 7: Towards a charter for action
CHAIR: kevin cowan, BBC World Service
15.45-17.00
Given the discussions and deliberations in the course of the conference, what do attendees think about the state of the world when it comes to being better informed? And what can be done about it, especially by researchers? What role should researchers take on in their organisations in an era of increasing scepticism around facts/data? We will aim to develop a 5 point charter of action for CIBAR to adopt.
17.00
End of conference