[Air-L] Recommendations (Sarah Ketchley)

[Ryan Burns]

Hi Sarah

If you're looking for academic articles as well as media texts, then the recent EASST review has some interesting short articles on post-truth specifically related to Trump in the 'STS Live' section - https://easst.net/issue/easst-review-volume-362-july-2017/ 

These aren't about evaluating facts on the internet specifically, but are more philosophical (and disciplinary) arguments about the status of facts, truth and expertise. 

Ryan
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 00:41:38 +0800
From: Julian Hopkins <julian.hopkins at monash.edu>
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These are interesting reads, if you have not come across them already:

https://medium.com/dfrlab/how-the-alt-right-brought-syriahoax-to-america-47745118d1c9

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win

This website is tracking Russian bots etc:

http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/

And an interesting podcast from NPR:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/08/09/fake-news-bots-are-here

Not much help regarding strategies for getting facts though I'm afraid.

Regards,
Julian

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On 30 August 2017 at 17:44, <air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:54:59 -0700
> From: Sarah Ketchley <ketchley at uw.edu>
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> Hi all,
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> I?m participating in a seminar called ?History in the Age of Trump? and am
> gathering resources (websites, articles, podcasts, online discussions etc)
> highlighting the problems we face in securing ?facts? and evidence today,
> along with strategies for accessing reliable evidence and sources on the
> internet. ?I?d be grateful for any recommendations and thoughts from the
> AIR-L community.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sarah Ketchley
>

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