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Focus Tag: Anthropology
Disinformation’s Consequences | Shorenstein Center
March 29, 2021
The consequences of disinformation came into sharp relief in the coordinated and violent attack on the United States Capitol on…
A Study of Confucius Institute Teachers Around the World | Shorenstein Center
March 29, 2021
Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication,…
Socially Mediated Visibility in Socially and Politically Authoritarian Societies | Annenberg School for Communication
March 29, 2021
Increased visibility is arguably the most significant affordance of social media and a large body of scholarly work has sought…
Cybernationalism and the World: Populism, Identity, and Symbolic Politics in the Digital Age | Annenberg School for Communication
March 29, 2021
Details forthcoming.
A Nursing Home’s Mission to Vaccinate Its Hesitant Staff | The New York Times
by Abby Goodnough
March 29, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 vaccine had finally come to Forest Hills of D.C., a nursing home in a prosperous neighborhood…
COVID-19 from the Margins | Berkman Klein Center
March 29, 2021
In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative.…
Mark Zuckerberg still won’t address the root cause of Facebook’s misinformation problem | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser
March 26, 2021
In a congressional hearing about disinformation on Thursday, Representative Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to…
Stop Blaming Tuskegee, Critics Say. It’s Not An ‘Excuse’ For Current Medical Racism | NPR
by KQED
March 24, 2021
For months, journalists, politicians and health officials - from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Dr. Anthony Fauci - have…
Half of Republican men say they don’t want the vaccine. They’re mooching off the rest of us | Los Angeles Times
by Doyle McManus
March 24, 2021
Millions of elderly Americans are still hunting for appointments to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Millions of younger Americans are waiting…