Introduction to Special Issue on Literacy, Democracy, and Fake News: Making it Right in the Era of Fast and Slow Literacies

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Miller ◽  
◽  
Adele Leon ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue

scholarly journals Leadership in a post-truth era: A new narrative disorder?

Leadership ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Foroughi ◽  
Yiannis Gabriel ◽  
Marianna Fotaki
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Historical Periods

This essay, and the special issue it introduces, seeks to explore leadership in a post-truth age, focusing in particular on the types of narratives and counter-narratives that characterize it and at times dominate it. We first examine the factors that are often held responsible for the rise of post-truth in politics, including the rise of relativist and postmodernist ideas, dishonest leaders and bullshit artists, the digital revolution and social media, the 2008 economic crisis and collapse of public trust. We develop the idea that different historical periods are characterized by specific narrative ecologies, which, by analogy to natural ecologies, can be viewed as spaces where different types of narrative and counter-narrative emerge, interact, compete, adapt, develop and die. We single out some of the dominant narrative types that characterize post-truth narrative ecologies and highlight the ability of language to ‘do things with words’ that support both the production of ‘fake news’ and a type of narcissistic leadership that thrive in these narrative ecologies. We then examine more widely leadership in post-truth politics focusing on the resurgence of populist and demagogical types along with the narratives that have made these types highly effective in our times. These include nostalgic narratives idealizing a fictional past and conspiracy theories aimed at arousing fears about a dangerous future.

scholarly journals Monday Mo(u)rning

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Gary Levy
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
Civil Societies

This piece presents an imaginary scenario taking place in any typical primary school around Australia. It was developed for the special issue of Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, on fake news and alternative facts, to show how these may arise in everyday practices.

scholarly journals The Alert Collector: Collection Development in an Era of "Fake News:

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Mark Shores
Keyword(s):  
Collection Development ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Innovative Approaches

This Alert Collector column for RUSQ’s special issue “Trusted Information in an Age of Uncertainty” is not going to be the usual list of great resources to add to your collection. In fact, despite a broadly distributed call for Alert Collector columns for this special issue, no one took me up. I do not blame them! At the suggestion of the editor of RUSQ, I decided to put together a “think” piece on fake news as it relates to collection development. I am not going to propose any radical or innovative approaches to how librarians develop collections for the purpose of battling fake news. I do not feel such an approach is possible. What I do want to do in this column is reaffirm and highlight things that I know many of my colleagues are already doing and have been trying to do since the dawn of collection building in libraries.—Editor

Special Issue: Fake News on the Internet

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-897
Author(s):  
Alan R. Dennis ◽  
Dennis F. Galletta ◽  
Jane Webster
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue

English / Science in highschool « European » section class

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Fradin
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Front Page ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Fake News ◽  
System Study ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Data Comparison ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Scientific Aspect

<p>Pupils who are from 15 to 18 years old, can in France choose to attend an extra language lesson (optional) for 2 hours a week. The aim of this class is to improve English skills especially oral ones.</p><p>I’m a science teacher and I participate to this class with an English teacher : Mrs Dubuc. We both work together on the same theme. I am more in charge of the scientific aspect of the programme and she of the language aspect.</p><p>Last year we chose the solar system as one of our main topics :</p><ul><li>the historical approach : race to the Moon, Kennedy’s speeches, astronauts’ biographies, press articles…</li> <li>the scientific approach : description of our solar system, study of astronomical data, comparison of the surface temperatures : why is Venus so warm ?, demonstration of the greenhouse effect…</li> </ul><p>The final task we asked our students to do was to prepare the <strong>front page of</strong> a <strong>special issue of a British newspaper </strong>about the solar system. Some pupils focused on fake news : the potential discovery of a ninth planet. Others focused on the future of science and space : Race to Mars. Some of these articles will be presented on the poster as well as pupils’work on the solar system.</p>

scholarly journals Social Media for Social Good or Evil: An Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511878671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Hemsley ◽  
Jenna Jacobson ◽  
Anatoliy Gruzd ◽  
Philip Mai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Good ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Good For ◽  
Good And Evil

In the heyday of social media, individuals around the world held high hopes for the democratizing force of social media; however, in light of the recent public outcry of privacy violations, fake news, and Russian troll farms, much of optimism toward social media has waned in favor of skepticism, fear, and outrage. This special issue critically explores the question, “Is social media for good or evil?” While good and evil are both moral terms, the research addresses whether the benefits of using social media in society outweigh the drawbacks. To help conceptualize this topic, we examine some of the benefits (good) and drawbacks (evil) of using social media as discussed in eight papers from the 2017 International Conference on Social Media and Society. This thematic collection reflects a broad range of topics, using diverse methods, from authors around the world and highlights different ways that social media is used for good, or evil, or both. We conclude that the determination of good and evil depends on where you stand, but as researchers, we need to go a step further to understand who it is good for and who it might hurt.

scholarly journals Introduction: Special Issue ‘Complexity and Truth’

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Altmann ◽  
Robert Peters
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Bright Light ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Complex Society ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

If not even earlier, then at the latest when Oxford Dictionaries selected ‘post-truth’ as Word of the Year 2016, did the global public become aware that ‘truth’ is not an uncontested and finite concept but a social construct. Are we, then, standing on the threshold of a new ‘post-truth age’ as – for instance – The Independent has claimed? (Norman 2016) Certainly, the Word of the Year 2016 has cast a bright light onto the case that there is not ‘one truth only’ but that there are facts that can be interpreted – or rejected – in different ways. This means that truth is ‘produced’, but is it produced as scientific or religious truth or as political truth? Just think of `fake news´ and its strategic use in influencing elections, as in the case of the latest presidential elections in the US or Brazil, or the leave campaign in the case of the Brexit referendum. Thus, the production of truth is undertaken by society, at least on the level of concrete actions. This situation becomes more complicated if we consider modern complex society. The increasing globalization of economies and societies has made the world more complex than it has ever before been.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and science communication: a JCOM special issue. Part 2

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (07) ◽  
pp. E
Author(s):  
Luisa Massarani ◽  
Padraig Murphy ◽  
Rod Lamberts
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The World ◽  
Deadly Disease

As COVID-19 continues its devastating pathway across the world, in this second part of the JCOM special issue on communicating COVID-19 and coronavirus we present further research papers and practice insights from across the world that look at specific national challenges, the issue of “fake news” and the possibilities of satire and humour in communicating the seriousness of the deadly disease.

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