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Soliciting Diaries for “Real-Time” Insights Into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Methodological Reflections on Using Digital Technologies to Engage the Public
Objectives: To discuss the opportunities and challenges of the qualitative solicited diary approach using digital technologies as an innovative way to access insights into people’s lives and their unique stories in times of COVID-19-related social distancing in Switzerland. Methods: This case study provides reflective arguments from a social science perspective for the selection of different (digital) diary…
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WHO leads the way? Bridging ethics and practice in social listening and infodemic management @EACME. Halle 2024
In light of the critical importance of ethical considerations in healthcare, particularly during public health emergencies, this conference contribution will focus on detailing the journey and insights gained from the creation of the WHO guidance document on ethical infodemic management. Specifically, it will explore the process of developing a framework that is both theoretically solid,…
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Ethical Considerations in Infodemic Management: Systematic Scoping Review
Background: During health emergencies, effective infodemic management has become a paramount challenge. A new era marked by a rapidly changing information ecosystem, combined with the widespread dissemination of misinformation and disinformation, has magnified the complexity of the issue. For infodemic management measures to be effective, acceptable, and trustworthy, a robust framework of ethical considerations is…
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TopicTracker – An advanced software pipeline for text mining on PubMed data: Bridging the gap between off-the-shelf tools and code based approaches
Background The ever-increasing volume of academic literature necessitates efficient and sophisticated tools for researchers to analyze, interpret, and uncover trends. Traditional search methods, while valuable, often fail to capture the nuance and interconnectedness of vast research domains. Results TopicTracker, a novel software tool, addresses this gap by providing a comprehensive solution from querying PubMed databases…
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Disruptive Technologies and Open Science: How Open Should Open Science Be? A ‘Third Bioethics’ Ethical Framework
This paper investigates the ethical implications of applying open science (OS) practices on disruptive technologies, such as generative AIs. Disruptive technologies, characterized by their scalability and paradigm-shifting nature, have the potential to generate significant global impact, and carry a risk of dual use. The tension arises between the moral duty of OS to promote societal…
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Large language models at the crossroads of life, death and data in assisted suicide cases @ Digital Bioethics. Hannover 2024
I presented these slides at the Digital Bioethics Symposium organized by Frank Ursin and Sabine Salloch – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) and funded by Volkswagen Stiftung. See also: https://renkulab.io/projects/giovanni.spitale/as-case-generation (code presented in the slides)
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Large language models’ impact on the disinformation ecosystem: Information Quality, Infodemics, and Public Health @ Digital Bioethics. Hannover 2024
We presented these slides at the Digital Bioethics Symposium organized by Frank Ursin and Sabine Salloch – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) and funded by Volkswagen Stiftung. See also: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh1850 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03550
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Death by PowerPoint? Not Today! @IBME PhD retreat 2024
How to Rock Your Presentations and Keep Your Audience Alive
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AI’s Double-Edged Sword: Impact on Information Quality, Infodemics, and Public Health @ WCB Doha 2024
We presented this deck at the World Conference of Bioethics 2024 in Doha, Qatar. Key Questions: Can individuals discern whether a tweet, true or false, is authored by a human Twitter user or generated by the AI model GPT-3?What is the potential impact of synthetic disinformation on public health issues such as infodemics, and how…
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Beyond Trade-Offs: Autonomy, Effectiveness, Fairness, and Normativity in Risk and Crisis Communication
This paper addresses the critiques based on trade-offs and normativity presented in response to our target article proposing the Public Health Emergency Risk and Crisis Communication (PHERCC) framework. These critiques highlight the ethical dilemmas in crisis communication, particularly the balance between promoting public autonomy through transparent information and the potential stigmatization of specific population groups,…
