1. Discuss if you or someone you know has ever been fooled by ‘Fake News’. How did you perform on the Fake news qquiz Were you surprised by things you thought were true?
2. Discuss where you get your knowledge from. Do you normally learn of cultural events online? If so, where do you normally get your information from? Do you ever question the news you get?
3. Referring to the Hoffman article (Stanford Social Innovation Review) what are ways of transition from a scientific to a social consensus on climate change? What can you do to drive a social consensus on this issue?
Use sources below
Readings for Week 9 Module
REQUIRED: SCIENCE, ETHICS, & POLITICS:
This Analysis Shows How Viral Fake Election News Stories Outperformed Real News On Facebook (Buzzfeed, Nov 2016) com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-news-outperformed-real-news-on-facebook?utm_term=.ygmgoPZ95#.fv4OJB1A4″>https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake…
Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’ (The Conversation, Feb 2017) https://theconversation.com/seeking-truth-among-al…
FAKE NEWS IS ABOUT TO GET EVEN SCARIER THAN YOU EVER DREAMED (Vanity Fair, Jan 2017) http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/fake-news-t…
Andrew Hoffman, Climate Science as Culture War, Stanford Social Innovation Review (Fall 2012), https://ssir.org/articles/entry/climate_science_as…
Danny Chivers, Switching Off Denial: A Guide (New Internationalist, May 2011) http://www.newint.org/features/2011/05/01/guide-to…
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