Fake News, Propaganda, and the Narrative Force Session

On April 5, 2021, the Wright Center for the Study of Computation and Just Communities held a zoom brainstorming session on "Fake News, Propaganda, and the Narrative Force – Historical, Aesthetic, Computational, and Cultural Considerations."

Fake News, Propaganda, and the Narrative Force

The Wright Center for the Study of Computation and Just Communities held a zoom brainstorming session on "Fake News, Propaganda, and the Narrative Force – Historical, Aesthetic, Computational, and Cultural Considerations" on April 5, 2021. The aim of the interdisciplinary meeting was a broad exploration of the relationship of fake news, propaganda, and storytelling in all modes and media in creating social climate and animating/driving social thought and action. The topics and approaches ranged from computationally assisted fact checking, to the poetics of the fact, to brain mechanisms of self-reinforcing beliefs. The event was co-organized by German Studies faculty member Petra McGillen, who gave a lightning talk on "Everyday Fakery in Nineteenth-Century News Work." German Studies faculty member Heidi Denzel also spoke at the event on "Framing News as a Form of Social Resistance."