Free and Open to Anyone
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Every Thursday, October 6 – December 15, 2022; 11:00am-12:30pm Eastern Time
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link
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Description: Fake news, post-truth, media, consumption of information – these terms are shaping our everyday life experiences, our choices, our imaginations, our political priorities and cultural frames. This seminar focuses on communication, its role and place in the life of society, policy and culture. We will study the various channels of information transmission, the methods of influence through different sign systems, the state of development of contemporary mass media, and how to conduct media research. We ground our discussion in the issues of the international information space, as well as those of the USA. The seminar covers the different types of propaganda, disinformation and misinformation that people consume in both old and new media forms (such as social media). We will study different methods of fact checking, employing both digital technologies and critical thinking.
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Weekly Readings: Will be available on the New University in Exile Consortium's website linked here.
More Information: Participants who attend at least 8 complete seminar sessions will receive a certificate of satisfactory completion from the Dean of The New School for Social Research. In order to obtain the certificate, participants must register and log in with the same email address each week.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the seminar. Registrants will receive a reminder email with the Zoom link each week. The seminar sessions will be recorded and available to registrants on Vimeo the following week.
Presented by The New University in Exile Consortium at The New School for Social Research.
Andriy Karakuts is a Ph.D. in History and head of the NGO "Center for Applied Research." He has ten years of teaching experience at the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as a senior research fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies in Kyiv.
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