Speaker: Heidi Radford Legg Topic: Will knowing who runs and funds our media rebuild trust. Time: Mar 29, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Heidi Legg is focused […]
Fake News is easy to spot.
Immediately you know this is political, propaganda, fake news or misinformation just by the language and the terms like “unemployed trees”. However, the first read raises alarms as something […]
The Women Making Conspiracy Theories Beautiful
How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses When I showed some of these Instagram accounts to Sophie Bishop, a lecturer in digital humanities at King’s College […]
Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind
The behavioral techniques that are being employed by governments and private corporations do not appeal to our reason. The term “propaganda” has been replaced by “a behavioral approach to persuasive […]
Nostalgia reimagined
Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory […]