I give lectures, lead workshops, facilitate discussions, and moderate events, primarily on topics related to digital media, politics, and society. This includes issues such as disinformation, fact-checking and verification, conspiracy theories, right-wing extremism, and right-wing terrorism.
Please direct your inquiries to: hallo@karolinschwarz.de
An overview of my topics:
Disinformation/Misinformation/“Fake News”
- Disinformation/Misinformation and the Internet (Social Media & Algorithms, Methods, Motives, Consequences)
- FIMI/Hybrid Warfare
- Recognizing Fakes Online/Verification
Right-Wing Extremism/Right-Wing Terrorism
- Far-right strategies online
- Recognizing and understanding radicalization processes
- Right-wing terrorism: Online propaganda, accelerationism
AI & Society
- AI-generated disinformation
- AI slop and its political dimensions
- AI and election campaigns
Digital self-defense
A more detailed selection of past events in German and English can be found here.
English-language Talks and Workshops
Impact of Disinformation and Misinformation on Widening Existing Fissures in Society (talk & discussion) und Perspectives to Managing Disinformation and Misinformation (chair) | (2024, AICHR-EU Dialogue on Disinformation and Misinformation, Singapur)
Workshop: Debunking and Verification | (2023, German-Armenian exchange program for journalists, Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin)
“From Websites to Social Media” – A history of far-right mobilization online | Keynote (2022, INACH Annual Conference, Amsterdam)
Jessica Bateman & Karolin Schwarz: Mapping climate change disinformation and far-right narratives on environmentalism | (2021, UdK, Online)
Workshops on digital security, social media and disinformation | (2019., elbarlament & Women Now, Lebanon)
New challenges for media freedom in South East Europe | Panel | (2019, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung & Albanian Media Institute, Tirana)
Milton Wolf Seminar | Input & Diskussion | (2019, Diplomatic Acadeny, Vienna)
Joint hearing on “Migrant invasion: hype or reality?” (2017, No Hate Parliamentary Alliance & Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons, of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg)
Panel with Rebecca Anselm & Bjørn Ihler, Moderation Julia Ebner, OCCI European Summit (2017, Open Civil Courage Initiative, Paris)