Australian Research Council Grant Awarded - Trust in a social and digital world
Artist: Janusz Jurek
Australian Research Council DP19 Grant Launched - Trust in a social and digital world
Colin Klein, and Mark Alfano
Colin Klein and Mark Alfano began work on 1 July 2019 on a $300,000 Australian Research Council grant on ‘Trust in a Social and Digital World’. This 3 year project, running alongside HMI, aims to provide a systematic and empirically-informed account of the way networks facilitate or hinder knowledge. Distinguishing on-line information from disinformation can be difficult. This task can be greatly assisted by networks of trusted peers, but figuring out who to trust is itself a challenge. Identifying, designing, and facilitating networks of trust is therefore an urgent task. By using the tools of social epistemology, virtue epistemology, and network science, this project will identify how individuals should distribute their trust when embedded in epistemically hostile environments.