Thank you very much for the link, Pine. I've been paying a lot of attention
to this, as I imagine everybody else here. Just the other day a read a very
interesting piece about how fake stories and conspiracy theories tend to
stick to people's minds especially when confronted with evidence:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/this-article-wont-chang…
.
My personal impression as a History teacher is that I started with a small
idea of gathering students to improve Wikipedia etc, and ended up with the
most striking and pressing issue of thought and politics in this century.
Juliana
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I imagine that this subject will be of interest and
concern to educators,
including those who teach in the Wikipedia in Education Program. Here is a
thought-provoking newspaper column about a University of Washington
professor's troubling findings:
http://www.seattletimes.com/se
attle-news/politics/uw-professor-the-information-war-is-
real-and-were-losing-it/
Quoting briefly from the article:
"Starbird is publishing her paper as a sort of warning. The information
networks we’ve built are almost perfectly designed to exploit psychological
vulnerabilities to rumor."
"Your brain tells you ‘Hey, I got this from three different sources,’ ”
she says. “But you don’t realize it all traces back to the same place, and
might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of
this as a virus, I wouldn’t know how to vaccinate for it.”
Pine
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