Full Description
Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.
The unprecedented spread of false and misleading information is the flip side of the Internet's promise of universal access and information democratization. This volume features original contributions from scholars working on the challenge of misinformation across a wide range of STEM, humanities, and art disciplines. Modeling a collaborative, multidisciplinary "convergence approach," Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload is structured in three parts. Part 1, "Misinformation and Artificial Intelligence," confronts the danger of outsourcing judgement and decision-making to AI instruments in key areas of public life, from the processing of loan applications to school funding, policing, and criminal sentencing. Part 2, "Science Communication," foregrounds the need to rethink how scientific findings are communicated to the public, calling on scientists to cooperate with colleagues in other disciplines and community representatives to help minimize the negative effects of mis/disinformation in such vital areas as climate change science and public health. Part 3, "Building Trust," further advocates for and explores instances of trust-building initiatives as a necessary precondition of both community-oriented scholarly activity and effective intervention strategies in high impact areas such as public health.
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Convergence Approach to the Mis/Disinformation Problem
David Castillo and Siwei Lyu
Part I: Misinformation and Artificial Intelligence
1. It Is Artificial, But Is It Intelligent?
E. Bruce Pitman
2. Disinformation, Power, and the Automation of Judgments: Notes on Algorithmic Harms to Democracy
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Part II: Science Communication, Cultivating Awareness
3. Communicating Science in an Increasingly Politicized Environment
Yotam Ophir, Raphaela M. Velho, and Lilian Tzivian
4. Generative Media and Our Collective Response to the Ecological Crisis
John Fiege
5. SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmospheres and Mass Production)
Matt Kenyon
Part III: Building Trust
6. Trust and Confidence in Medicine Among Americans
Jessie Poon and Laurene Tumiel Berhalter
7. Practicing Responsible Science through Community Engagement
Jennifer Anne Surtees
Afterword: Trusting Fiction's Truth
Christina Milletti
List of Contributors
Index
