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Six Tips for Avoiding Misinformation on Social Media
Is that article fake news? Is this meme trustworthy? Is that scientific claim reliable? Over the last few years, it has become clear that most of us are not very good at answering such questions. For this reason, social media has contributed to a growing crisis in false belief.
Read moreQ&A with Denise Murrell, author of Posing Modernity
Yale University Press: Posing Modernity began as a term paper that became a dissertation and has now become both an exhibition and a book. What changes or shifts in focus have you encountered since you started the project?
Denise Murrell: The main change was to shape the initially academic project into a narrative with a story line that would have the widest possible appeal.
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