This special issue is designed to place our contemporary post-truth impasse in historical perspective. Drawing comparisons to the Propaganda Analysis…
Focus Tag: Anthropology
History Shows Anti-Vaccination, Misinformation Campaigns Are Nothing New | Wisconsin Public Radio
Anti-vaccination sentiment is on repeat in this era of COVID-19, as misinformation about unsafe vaccines and mutated DNA is recycled…
Disinformation, China, and Beijing’s Broader Global Media Influence | ThinkND
The Ten Years Hence speaker series explores issues, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next…
Survival Guides for an Uncertain Future | Center for Brooklyn History
If the speed that the world is changing makes you want to crawl into a cave, if you fret over…
As Covid-19 Vaccinations Ramp Up, Hesitancy Wanes | WSJ
A shrinking percentage of Americans are expressing reluctance to get a Covid-19 vaccine, a positive sign for the efforts to…
Disinformation’s Consequences | Shorenstein Center
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
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
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
Details forthcoming.
A Nursing Home’s Mission to Vaccinate Its Hesitant Staff | The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 vaccine had finally come to Forest Hills of D.C., a nursing home in a prosperous neighborhood…