Days: Thursday, August 28th Friday, August 29th
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| 11:00 | Modeling the cognitive process of accepting clinical decision support (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Tracking Trust Dynamics in Digital Food Innovations: A Trust Experience Evaluation Toolkit (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Challenges in Enhancing High School Students' Ability to Identify Scientific Disinformation: Insights from Ecological Classroom Interventions (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Examining Perceptions of Conversational Agents’ Political Ideology (abstract) |
| 11:00 | Trustworthy AI: Opportunity or Obstacle (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Human Oversight in AI Decision-Making: Balancing Autonomy and Accountability (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Control-Based Trust in AI Governance: Copyright Law's Role Within the EU AI Act’s Institutional Design (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Trust as a Key Element in Regulating Digital Space (abstract) |
| 11:00 | Trustless Strategic Communication (abstract) |
| 11:20 | A Panoramic View of Trust in the Digital Society (abstract) |
| 11:40 | User perceptions of online risk and internet safety: #SaferInternetDay as an affective public (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Putting trust to the test: making sense of human-machine interactions on TikTok (abstract) |
This track examines how and whether various technologies - from privacy tools to digital signatures - can build or restore trust in digital systems. The track takes a critical perspective, analyzing whether such technologies genuinely foster trust or merely project expectations.
| 14:00 | ‘Must Fix Trust’: Privacy-enhancing technologies as reductive tool (abstract) PRESENTER: Tom Barbereau |
| 14:15 | Digital mediation of interpersonal trust beyond the interface: algorithms and data flows in online platforms (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Image Authenticity in the Age of AI: Digital Signatures as a Defense Against Visual Disinformation (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Towards collective trust: “commons-centric” AI and security design for democratic participation (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Building Trust in Fair AI: Trusted Third-Party Computation for Measuring Discriminatory Impacts (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Trust or Distrust in the Gaming Economy - Shared Practices and Missing Standards (abstract) |
| 14:20 | Endorsements as a trust mechanism in the context of AI (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Extended Abstract: If Deceptive Patterns are the Problem, are Fair Patterns the Solution? (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Surveillance Watermarking: Trading Privacy for AI Disclosure (abstract) |
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| 14:00 | AI and the Medical Fiduciary (abstract) |
| 14:20 | Through faith we trust: A tripartite trust model for explaining AI mis- and disuse (abstract) |
| 14:40 | Soft Biopolitics: TikTok’s Moderation Codes and The 1881 Ugly Law (abstract) |
| 15:00 | Breaking Silencing Conspiracies with Technologies of Trust - An Academic Freedom Proposal (abstract) |
| 16:00 | The gendered aspect of establishing digital trust in new-age relationships (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Trust in the Age of Algorithms: How Generation Z Canadians Navigate News Trust, Skepticism, and Selective Exposure (abstract) |
| 16:40 | Experimentally Identifying Motivated Belief Updating on Politicized Topics in Germany: The Role of Critical Thinking (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Trustworthy Signals in Data Governance: Reframing Benevolence as Seamfulness, Transparency with Mutual Vulnerability, and Consensus-Building (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Trust and the Principle of Purpose Limitation in EU Information Exchange in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (abstract) |
| 16:40 | Defending Cyber Resilience in Democracies: Learning from Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosures (abstract) PRESENTER: Max Van Der Horst |
| 17:00 | BEYOND DIGITAL PESSIMISM: HOW A FOCUS ON TRUST CAN ENHANCE EU DIGITAL LAW (abstract) |
This track explores how AI and digital technologies are eroding public trust in foundational institutions - media, science, or courts - by disrupting credibility, accountability and authority.
| 16:00 | Judicial AI: How Use of AI Decision-Making Tools May Degrade Trust in the Courts (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Digital Innovations and Trust in Science: Paradoxes, Problems, and Possibilities (abstract) |
| 16:40 | Learning to Distrust: Pedagogical Interactions in Anti-5G Movement Recruitment Processes (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Meta’s Reckless Cash Grab: AI-Driven Impersonation Scam Ads Exploiting Trust for Financial Fraud (abstract) |
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This panel explores how distrust is articulated and circulated through internet-native genres—from influencer discourse to algorithmic recommendations and YouTube truther content. Together, the papers examine how digital platforms shape vernacular epistemologies, blending critique, conspiracism, and affective resonance.
| 09:00 | Becoming Platform: Trust, Masculinity, and Infrastructure (abstract) |
| 09:15 | The Great Yoga Split (abstract) PRESENTER: Karen Pelletier |
| 09:30 | The Infrastructure of Suspicion: How Amazon Curates Distrust (abstract) |
| 09:45 | Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Knowledge, Belonging and Discursive Existence of Conspiracy Theorists on YouTube (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Trust in the Digital Age: News Influencers, Political Misinformation, and Audience Perceptions (abstract) |
This track examines how trust is formed or reshaped in human-AI interactions, from synthetic or AI-generated media to AI-mediated relationships.
| 09:00 | Relationships in the Age of AI: A Review on the Opportunities and Risks of Synthetic Relationships to Reduce Loneliness (abstract) |
| 09:15 | Do people trust GenAI in Journalism? Testing the effects of human vs AI task performance on the perceived trustworthiness of news articles [Extended Abstract]] (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Trust in the digital society: Perspectives from the linguistics-driven, interdisciplinary Next-Generation Fakespeak project (abstract) |
| 09:45 | AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Trust and Trustworthiness in AI: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda (abstract) |
| 11:00 | Trust of the Digital Citizen: Evidence from the Judiciary, News and the Workplace (abstract) |
This panel examines how Russian disinformation exploits digital infrastructures to weaponise trust. Through case studies of fake news campaigns, oppositional media in exile, and platform-based recruitment for sabotage, the papers show how trust is not simply eroded but strategically reshaped. Disinformation emerges here as a sociotechnical tactic—leveraging platform logics, affective appeal, and the atomisation of the gig economy to reconfigure public belief.
| 11:00 | The Doppelganger Operation: Russian Disinformation Tactics and Their Global Impact on Trust and Democracy (abstract) |
| 11:20 | Trust in Oppositional Media in Russia after 2022: Digital Accessibility, High Quality Content, but Slightly Declining Trust (abstract) |
| 11:40 | From Trust to Seduction: The Gig-economy of War and its Advertising Campaigns (abstract) |
This track explores how (AI-generated) mis- and disinformation undermines public trust, and how individuals and institutions perceive or respond to these threats.
| 11:00 | Countering AI-Generated Visual Disinformation: Testing the Effectiveness of Different Label Sources on Climate Change and Immigration Imagery (abstract) |
| 11:15 | An attributional approach to organizational misinformation and trust: the role of intentions and consequences (abstract) |
| 11:30 | The Misuse of Scholarly Communication Principles in Health Misinformation (abstract) |
| 11:45 | From Facts to (Dis)trust? Investigating Cross-Lagged Effects Between News Media Trust and Exposure to Fact-Checks (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Exploring Misinformation Threat Perceptions and Trust Dynamics: Insights from Focus Group Discussions (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Defining and Designing Disinformation: A Qualitative Exploration of Dutch Youths’ Perceptions and Experiences of Disinformation (abstract) |
| 14:00 | Integrating Communication Science into Explainable AI (XAI): Strategies for Deploying Trustworthy AI Models (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Self- vs. Meta-Perceptions of AI: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of AI-Sentiment and Mind Perceptions (abstract) |
| 14:30 | What Can Experiences of Too Much Trust in Technology Teach Us About Implementation of Future Technologies? (abstract) |
| 14:45 | Control-Based Trust in AI Governance: Copyright Law's Role Within the EU AI Act’s Institutional Design (abstract) |
| 15:00 | (En)Trusting our Privacy to PETs? Consumer trust frames in Privacy-Preserving Computation (abstract) |
| 15:15 | Digital Trust and Activism: Women of Sacrifice Zones Resisting Necropolitics in Chile (abstract) |
The roundtable takes a practical perspective on Digital Trust in the Netherlands, bringing together public & private sector speakers with a focus on governance, research, and trust technologies such as data sharing solutions, digital identity wallets and (abuse of) cryptographic solutions.
| 14:00 | Digital Trust in the Netherlands – goals, challenges and the way forward PRESENTER: Tom Barbereau |