The role of the academic in the era of fake news
de Ruyter, A. (2020) The role of the academic in the era of fake news. Centre for Brexit Studies.
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Abstract
Today I want to revisit a piece I wrote for theTimes Higher Educationoutlet back in August (7th) 2018, entitled “The need to be both scholar and expert is an urgent one”. I was writing this in a Brexitcontext in looking at the myriad ways that misinformation, or downright lies, were widely used –mainly by the Leave side it has to be said –in the run-up to the referendum campaign. In so doing, I wanted to get to grips with the notion that the Internet, rather than necessarily being a means to more widely distil objective, evidence-based information, could just as easily become a platform to amplify existing prejudices and outright nonsense.
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Centre for Brexit Studies, BCU, Birmingham City University, Academic, Academic, Fake News | ||||
| Subjects: | CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-01 - education | ||||
| Divisions: | Research, Innovation, Enterprise and Professional Services > Centre for Brexit Studies | ||||
| Depositing User: | Bethan Tolley | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2020 13:49 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2022 17:22 | ||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9577 |
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