Media and Policy in the Era of Fake News: Free 10-Week Online Seminar, Fall 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link
Thursdays
October 6 – December 15, 2022
11:00am – 12:30pm Eastern Time
Description: Fake news, post-truth, media, consumption of information – these terms are shaping our everyday life experiences, our choices, our imaginations, our political priorities and cultural frames. This seminar focuses on communication, its role and place in the life of society, policy and culture. We will study the various channels of information transmission, the methods of influence through different sign systems, the state of development of contemporary mass media, and how to conduct media research. We ground our discussion in the issues of the international information space, as well as those of the USA. The seminar covers the different types of propaganda, disinformation and misinformation that people consume in both old and new media forms (such as social media). We will study different methods of fact checking, employing both digital technologies and critical thinking.
More Information:
Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week.
The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Seminar Leaders:
Dr. Anton Liagusha
Dr. Andriy Karakuts
Oct 6, 2022 11:00 AM
Media, policy, and culture in a post-truth world
Cosentino, Gabriele, Social Media and the Post-Truth World Order. The Global Dynamics of Disinformation. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Chapter 1, The Post-truth World Order: pp. 1-29.
Oct 13, 2022 11:00 AM
Mass communication theories: understanding media influence on society
Campbell, Richard, Martin, Christopher R., Fabos, Bettina. Media Effects and Cultural Approaches to Research in Media and Culture. An introduction to mass communication, Boston, 2012: pp. 451-477.
Oct 20, 2022 11:00 AM
Simulacra and simulation in the Age of all-media
Morris, James. Simulacra in the Age of Social Media: Baudrillard as the Prophet of Fake News, Journal of Communication Inquiry 2021, Vol. 45(4): pp. 319–336.
Oct 27, 2022 11:00 AM
Mass culture and consumption of information
Levinson, Barry. 1997. Wag the Dog. United States: New Line Cinema.
Keating, Joshua, Watching Wag the Dog in 2020 Is Almost Comforting, Slate, Jan. 14, 2020.
Nov 3, 2022 11:00 AM
Propaganda, disinformation, misinformation
Shu K., Wang S., Lee D., Liu H. (2020) Mining Disinformation and Fake News: Concepts, Methods, and Recent Advancements. In: Shu K., Wang S., Lee D., Liu H. (eds) Disinformation, Misinformation, and Fake News in Social Media. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham: pp. 1-18.
Nov 10, 2022 11:00 AM
Political & media discourse: theories, issues and analyses methods
Sullivan, John L. Chapter 6: Interpreting and Decoding Mass Media Texts pp.133-161 in Media Audiences. Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power, Sage, Los Angeles, 2013: pp. 133-160.
Nov 17, 2022 11:00 AM
The Performance of politics in public sphere
Greg, Nielsen ‘Populism, Fake News, and the Flight From Democracy’ in Navigating Fake News, Alternative facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World, IGI Global, Hershey PA, 2020: pp. 238-259.
Dec 1, 2022 11:00 AM
Mass communication and public opinion
Perry, David K. Mass Communication, Public Opinion, and Civil Engagement in Theory and Research in Mass Communication. Context and Consequences, 2nd ed., Mahwah, New Jersey, LEA, 2001: pp. 188-210.
Dec 8, 2022 11:00 AM
Social media and democracy
Howard, P. (2017) Is social media killing democracy? Oxford.
Dec 15, 2022 11:00 AM
Communication with memes
Miltner, Kate M. “Internet Memes.” In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media (ed. Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick and Thomas Poell), 55 City Road: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018, pp. 412-428.