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  • Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

  • GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

  • Epistemic flooding

  • Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

  • The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

  • Molecules of fascism”: the ‘Red Pill’ as Antidepressant

  • Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?

  • An accelerationist response to generative AI

  • The Digital Sociology of Generative AI: Five Speculative Propositions

  • Post-truth as liberal populism: revisiting Cambridge Analytica

  • The shifting landscape of misinformation: from macro-conspiracies to micro-conspiracies

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

  • Do your research!

  • In defence of lurid curiosity about the lives of the rich and powerful

  • What is ‘post-truth’?

  • Post-neoliberal civics and the symmetry problem

  • Wikibombing

  • Andrew Chadwick on Donald Trump’s social media engagement advantage

  • Election 2019 and journalism

  • The political significance of realism

  • You can’t have your ‘facts’ back

  • Political science, epistemic snobbery and the Corbyn problem

  • Experts, knowledge and criticality in the age of ‘alternative facts’: re-examining the contribution of higher education

  • Call for Papers: Lies, Bullshit and Fake News Online: Should We Be Worried?

  • Fake news as an endless game of epistemic whack-a-mole

  • The unraveling of factfulness and the political ontology of representation

  • The weaponisation of epistemology: strategy and tactics

  • The vulnerability of human experience to abbreviation

  • Social ontology amidst the wreckage of techno-progressive orthodoxy

  • Social media as asshole amplification technology, or, the moral psychology of platform architecture

  • Call for abstracts: DQComm2018 The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference

  • Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

  • Trump as a tactician of post-truth

  • Call for Papers: Journalism in the Age of Partisan Politics, Political Protests, and President Trump

  • CfP: ‘Social Research in a Sceptical Age’

  • Miniconference on post-truth and digital media in Reading UK coming up

  • The Ontology of Fake News

  • CFP: Alternative Facts: Constructing Truth in Civil Societies

  • Donald Trump: Everyday Tactics of Post-Truth

  • An STS approach to ‘post-truth’

  • Denial and the Antinomies of (Post)Truth

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