The Trust in the Digital Society Research Priority Area at the University of Amsterdam invites researchers to an interdisciplinary expert workshop examining how digital infrastructures underpinning news, elections and public services can anchor or disrupt social trust. As their design, ownership and governance change, what makes digital public infrastructures and media systems worthy of trust, and what undermines that trustworthiness?
The workshop brings together research from across the University of Amsterdam through two interconnected sessions:
Session I — Trustworthy media and epistemic systems
Exploring trust and trustworthiness in journalism, public service media and social media, and how technological and institutional change is reshaping the production, circulation and evaluation of information.
Session II — Trustworthy digital/public infrastructures
Examining digital infrastructures, including digital identity, payments and data sharing, and how changes in their design, ownership and governance affect the public functions they support.
Each session will open with short presentations from invited researchers, followed by discussion. Together, we will consider significant changes and disruptions, the responses they have prompted, remaining knowledge gaps, and their implications for the design and governance of trustworthy digital infrastructures and media systems.