The posttruth era Post what exactly Stephan Lewandowsky
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The “post-truth” era: Post what exactly? Stephan Lewandowsky University of Bristol and University of Western Australia stephan. lewandowsky@bristol. ac. uk @STWorg Linköping, December 2017
Something is going on … but what? 2
“Post-Fact” World—“Post-Truth” Politics “post-truth” Number of media hits “post-fact” “post-truth” “fake news” Word of the year 2016 Word of the year 2017 (Oxford Dictionaries) (Collins Dictionaries)
Implicatures of “Post-Truth” • From truth to post-truth … • … implies a ‘fall from grace’ • But there were untruths before “post-truth” 5
WMD: Persistence of a Myth
Post What Exactly? 7
Mc. Cright & Dunlap (in press) 8
Mc. Cright & Dunlap (in press) Carefully curated lies in support of distinct goal (WMDs, climate denial) Epistemic insouciance (Trump, Brexit) Contesting the same reality “Alternative facts” 2000 s 2017 9
Mc. Cright & Dunlap (in press) Carefully curated lies in support of distinct goal (WMDs, climate denial) Epistemic insouciance (Trump, Brexit) Contesting the same reality “Alternative facts” 2000 s 2017 10
Misinformation vs. Alternative Realities • Misinformation is not (no longer? ) “coincidental contamination” that can be debunked • Many Americans share a belief system that is disconnected from a conventional understanding of “facts” or “evidence”
Alternative Realities • “We live in two universes. One universe is a lie. . . The other universe is where we are, and that’s where reality reigns supreme and we deal with it. ” Rush Limbaugh
Alternative Realities
“Reality!” Science, Academia, Politifact, Rush, Trump, . . . .
“Reality!”
Mc. Cright & Dunlap (in press) Epistemic insouciance (Trump, Brexit) “Alternative facts” Alternative realities Facts do not matter 16
Now what? 17
Conventional Interventions 18
Conventional Interventions 19
Technocognition • Use findings from cognitive science to design information architectures that provide affordances for truth rather than misinformation 20
Technocognition • Ask readers to pass a quiz about an online article before they can comment
Politics
Thank You http: //www. bristol. ac. uk/posttruthexperts/ 23
Elizabethan or victorian
Creí que era una aventura y en realidad era la vida
Poema sobre as estrelas
Quiz 2 the baroque era
Post method era
Presentation, practice and production (ppp)
Post classical era timeline
America confronts the post-cold war era
Show that there are exactly five 3-digit cube numbers
A trapezoid is a quadrilateral with exactly one pair of
Saying exactly what someone has said is called
What exactly is money?
Name
Each month jessica buys exactly 15 big macs
Where exactly was the battle of thermopylae?
Congruent segments
Quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides
A painter has exactly 32 units
What exactly is a strategy
What is the holy ghost
Let l(x y) be the statement x loves y where the domain
She is as fast as a cheetah literal or figurative
Cube plane symmetry
What exactly is hiasl
