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.
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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
Sobre el autor
David R. Castillo is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Codirector of the Center for Information Integrity at the University of Buffalo, the State University of New York. He is the author of
Un-Deceptions: Cervantine Strategies for the Disinformation Age, among other books.
Siwei Lyu is SUNY Empire Innovative Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
Christina Milletti is the Executive Director of the Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. She is the author of
The Girling Season, among other books.
Cynthia Stewart is Program Manager for the Center for Information Integrity at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
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