Please join us for the next GSOLE webinar: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Citational Responsibility in the Age of GenAI presented by Emma Kostopolus and Catherine Bowers.
February 28, 2025 @ 4:00pm-5:30pm ET
Register: https://gsole.org/event-5884957
- This Webinar is free to GSOLE members.
- Non-Members can register for $15.
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Overview
This webinar describes the journey the facilitators have gone on to work with multiple contact points to communicate what AI is, what it is not, and what it could be across the disciplines. We will examine the ethical knots around citational issues through a series of hypothetical scenarios that will serve as springboards for compassionate discussions about AI use. The facilitators will theoretically ground the opening discussion with a heuristic to tease out the implications of ethical AI use. The session will then move into an interactive component that allows the participants to discuss and find productive spaces for potential collaboration or continued discourse. This webinar does not seek to reinvent the wheel: rather, we wish to build on existing knowledge and ethical perspectives across the disciplines to help generate a more unified, productive discussion about AI in academia.
From this webinar, the participants should gain:
- A nuanced understanding of the consequences of using Generative AI for citational work
- The ability to ask questions and evaluate the choices available to them regarding AI and other institutional resources
- The confidence to start interdisciplinary conversations about needs at their own institutions
- access to a network of other interested parties, with whom they could collaborate
The Presenters
Emma Kostopolus is an Assistant Professor of English at Valdosta State University, where she specializes in Digital Rhetoric. Her work focuses on the rhetorical and material impacts of interactive digital media and software, such as video games and (more recently) Generative AI platforms.
Catherine Bowers is a Librarian Associate Professor at Odum Library, Valdosta State University in Georgia. She coordinates the library instruction and information literacy program. Her research interests include physical and arboreal literacies, mapmaking as an undergraduate research method, and avocational information literacy.
Best,
The GSOLE Webinars Committee
Dr. Sarah Lonelodge (co-chair)
Dr. Mary Lourdes Silva (co-chair)
