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Expected duration: 45 minutes
Aims
To understand the role of Media to stereotypization and otherisation.
Questions
Read the text of Bastick (2021). The text is about the unconscious effects of Fake News on behavior.
- The text shows how Fake News have the capacity to influence beliefs, which, in turn influence behaviors. Develop and illustrate this idea, choosing one example in your experience (individual/ group work).
- How do online platforms contribute to proliferate emotions associated with disinformation? How to fight against this? Discuss these issue with your colleagues.
Resources
- Bastik, Z. (2021). Would you notice if Fake News changed your behavior? An experiment on the unconscious effects of disinformation. Computers in Human Behavior, 116 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106633