PROGRAM
Days: Thursday, August 28th Friday, August 29th
Thursday, August 28th
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11:00-12:30 Session 2A: Methods session
medium density
Chair:
Location: Grand Space
| 11:00 | Modeling the cognitive process of accepting clinical decision support (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Tracking Trust Dynamics in Digital Food Innovations: A Trust Experience Evaluation Toolkit (abstract) |
| 11:30 | Challenges in Enhancing High School Students' Ability to Identify Scientific Disinformation: Insights from Ecological Classroom Interventions (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Examining Perceptions of Conversational Agents’ Political Ideology (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 2B: safeguards session I
Location: Red Space
| 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) |
11:00-12:30 Session 2C: Theory session I - interpersonal and impersonal trust relations
Chair:
Location: White Space
| 11:00 | Trustless Strategic Communication (abstract) |
| 11:20 | A Panoramic View of Trust in the Digital Society (abstract) |
| 11:40 | Legitimacy of Algorithmic Decision-Making in the Age of the “Vanishing Trial”: A Scoping Review (abstract) |
| 11:55 | User perceptions of online risk and internet safety: #SaferInternetDay as an affective public (abstract) |
| 12:10 | Putting trust to the test: making sense of human-machine interactions on TikTok (abstract) |
14:00-15:30 Session 3A: Trust Dynamics around Emerging Technologies: Trust by technology?
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.
Chair:
Location: Grand Space
| 14:00 | ‘Must Fix Trust’: Privacy-enhancing technologies as reductive tool (abstract) PRESENTER: Tom Barbereau |
| 14:20 | Digital mediation of interpersonal trust beyond the interface: algorithms and data flows in online platforms (abstract) |
| 14:35 | Image Authenticity in the Age of AI: Digital Signatures as a Defense Against Visual Disinformation (abstract) |
| 14:55 | Towards collective trust: “commons-centric” AI and security design for democratic participation (abstract) |
| 15:15 | Building Trust in Fair AI: Trusted Third-Party Computation for Measuring Discriminatory Impacts (abstract) |
14:00-15:30 Session 3B: Safeguards session II
Location: Red Space
| 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) |
14:00-15:30 Session 3C: Theory session II - on trust around AI and platforms
medium density
Location: White Space
| 14:00 | AI and the Medical Fiduciary (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Through faith we trust: A tripartite trust model for explaining AI mis- and disuse (abstract) |
| 14:30 | Soft Biopolitics: TikTok’s Moderation Codes and The 1881 Ugly Law (abstract) |
| 14:50 | Breaking Silencing Conspiracies with Technologies of Trust - An Academic Freedom Proposal (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 4A: Behaviour session I
Location: Grand Space
| 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 | Trust and Bureaucratic Communication: The Effects of Emotional Appeals on Public Trust in the European Commission (abstract) |
16:00-17:30 Session 4B: Safeguards session III
Location: Red Space
| 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) |
16:00-17:30 Session 4C: Trust Dynamics around Emerging Technologies: Distrust and the Erosion of Trust
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.
Chair:
Location: White Space
| 16:00 | AI and the Erosion of Institutional Trust in Public Discourse (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Judicial AI: How Use of AI Decision-Making Tools May Degrade Trust in the Courts (abstract) |
| 16:40 | Digital Innovations and Trust in Science: Paradoxes, Problems, and Possibilities (abstract) |
| 17:00 | Learning to Distrust: Pedagogical Interactions in Anti-5G Movement Recruitment Processes (abstract) |
| 17:20 | Meta’s Reckless Cash Grab: AI-Driven Impersonation Scam Ads Exploiting Trust for Financial Fraud (abstract) |
Friday, August 29th
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09:00-10:30 Session 5A: Behaviour session II
Location: Grand Space
| 09:00 | Digital trust in a high-risk environment: Navigating digital trust in the Russian anti-war movement abroad (abstract) |
| 09:20 | Experimentally Identifying Motivated Belief Updating on Politicized Topics in Germany: The Role of Critical Thinking (abstract) |
| 09:40 | Investigating Perceived Trust and Utility of Balanced News Chatbots Among Individuals with Varying Conspiracy Beliefs (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 5B: Platform Vernaculars and the Semiotics of Distrust
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.
Location: Red Space
| 09:00 | Becoming Platform: Trust, Masculinity, and Infrastructure (abstract) |
| 09:20 | The Great Yoga Split (abstract) PRESENTER: Karen Pelletier |
| 09:40 | CO-CONSUMING DISTRUST: ANALYSING AN ALTERNATIVE GENRE OF TECHNOLOGY CRITICISM THROUGH AMAZON’S BOOK RECOMMENDATION NETWORKS (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Knowledge, Belonging and Discursive Existence of Conspiracy Theorists on YouTube (abstract) |
| 10:15 | Trust in the Digital Age: News Influencers, Political Misinformation, and Audience Perceptions (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 5C: Trust Dynamics around Emerging Technologies: AI Content and Human-AI Interaction
This track examines how trust is formed or reshaped in human-AI interactions, from synthetic or AI-generated media to AI-mediated relationships.
Chair:
Location: White Space
| 09:00 | Relationships in the Age of AI: A Review on the Opportunities and Risks of Synthetic Relationships to Reduce Loneliness (abstract) |
| 09:20 | 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) |
| 09:40 | Trust in the digital society: Perspectives from the linguistics-driven, interdisciplinary Next-Generation Fakespeak project (abstract) |
| 10:00 | AI-generated photo-based images: their ontological status and interpretation (abstract) |
| 10:20 | Trust and Trustworthiness in AI: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6A: Roundtable
Location: Grand Space
| 11:00 | Trust of the Digital Citizen: Evidence from the Judiciary, News and the Workplace (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6B: Infrastructures of Disinformation and the Contestation of Trust
This panel examines how trust is challenged and strategically reconfigured across conflict zones, exile media, and national disinformation interventions. From Russian and pro-Russian information operations to Dutch activist and alternative media ecosystems, these papers trace how disinformation circulates through institutional, platform, and affective infrastructures—and how various actors seek to disrupt or redirect its flow.
Location: Red Space
| 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) |
| 11:55 | Fostering Trust: Disinformation Interventions in the Dutch (Alternative) Media and Activist Landscape (abstract) |
11:00-12:30 Session 6C: Trust Dynamics around Emerging Technologies: Mis- and Disinformation
This track explores how (AI-generated) mis- and disinformation undermines public trust, and how individuals and institutions perceive or respond to these threats.
Chair:
Location: White Space
| 11:00 | Countering AI-Generated Visual Disinformation: Testing the Effectiveness of Different Label Sources on Climate Change and Immigration Imagery (abstract) |
| 11:20 | An attributional approach to organizational misinformation and trust: the role of intentions and consequences (abstract) |
| 11:40 | The Misuse of Scholarly Communication Principles in Health Misinformation (abstract) |
| 12:00 | From Facts to (Dis)trust? Investigating Cross-Lagged Effects Between News Media Trust and Exposure to Fact-Checks (abstract) |
| 12:20 | Exploring Misinformation Threat Perceptions and Trust Dynamics: Insights from Focus Group Discussions (abstract) |
| 12:40 | Defining and Designing Disinformation: A Qualitative Exploration of Dutch Youths’ Perceptions and Experiences of Disinformation (abstract) |
14:00-15:30 Session 7: Poster session
Location: Grand Space
| 14:00 | Generative Listening: How Institutions Can Use AI to Build Trust with Constituents (abstract) |
| 14:01 | Integrating Communication Science into Explainable AI (XAI): Strategies for Deploying Trustworthy AI Models (abstract) |
| 14:02 | Self- vs. Meta-Perceptions of AI: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of AI-Sentiment and Mind Perceptions (abstract) |
| 14:03 | What Can Experiences of Too Much Trust in Technology Teach Us About Implementation of Future Technologies? (abstract) |
| 14:04 | Control-Based Trust in AI Governance: Copyright Law's Role Within the EU AI Act’s Institutional Design (abstract) |
| 14:05 | (En)Trusting our Privacy to PETs? Consumer trust frames in Privacy-Preserving Computation (abstract) |
| 14:06 | Digital Trust and Activism: Women of Sacrifice Zones Resisting Necropolitics in Chile (abstract) |