Front matter
- Conferences on Monday for Response #2 drafts: schedule.
- Response #2
- End of Week 4: only 2 weeks left!
Technology & post-truth: algorithms
Psychology & post-truth: Confirmation bias
Cognitive Miser Quiz
These are all questions that you have the information to answer. However, you will have a limited time to answer these. This is to illustrate how your brain works, not to test your knowledge. Do the best you can. Don’t answer “I don’t know.” Give it a guess.
Continue reading “Psychology & post-truth: Confirmation bias”American culture & post-truth: Conspiracies
Front matter
- Group conferences tomorrow: look at schedule
- Response #1
Economics of post-truth: Clickbait
Front matter
- Last week we talked about the politics of post-truth and practiced using marginal annotations to pull out a passage and contextualize it. How would you summarize our conversation about Robert-Miller? What does demagoguery have to do with post-truth and/or fake news?
- Week at a glance: schedule.
- Open a new document and write down one thing that is lingering from the Daily podcast you listened to for today. This can be a striking detail, question, a response, an objection, a passionate agreement, anything that is sticking with you after the reading. Once you are finished paste it into this document.
Politics of post-truth: Demagoguery
Front matter
- Tomorrow we are meeting individually to talk about your revisions for Fact-checks #1-4 and my assessment of them: conference schedule.
- Next week we are talking about the economics of post-truth; you should listen to a podcast and complete a holistic annotation for it (which we’ll talk about in class today)