Ideals
January 13
"Donald Trump...Tribal Epistemology"
January 15
Pinker, "Dare to Understand!" Notes
Bonus: "What is Enlightenment?" (Kant)
January 17
Mill, "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion" Notes
Bonus: Testing the "Marketplace of Ideas
Can Google Find the Truth in Digital Marketplaces?
January 20 No Class -- MLK Day
January 22
Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?' Notes
Bonus: Oreskes TED Talk
January 24
Activity: Reflections on Truth-Directed Systems
Bonus: Duhem and Kuhn Video
Challenges
January 27
Lippmann, Public Opinion, Ch. 1-3 Notes
Bonus: Fake News is Old News
January 29
Lippmann, Public Opinion, Ch. 4-7 Notes
Bonus: Epistocracy?!
January 31
Nickerson, "Confirmation Bias" Notes
February 3
Cont'd
February 5
Kunda, "The Case for Motivated Reasoning" Notes
February 7
Kahan, "Misconceptions, Misinformation, and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition" Notes
Short Paper #1 Due
Bonus: Cultural Cognition Project
February 10
Goldman and Cox, "Speech, Truth, and the Free Market for Ideas" Notes
February 12
Sunstein, #Republic, Chapter 2
Bonus: Sunstein Talk
February 14
Lev-On and Manin, "Happy Accidents" Notes
Personalization
February 17
Pariser, The Filter Bubble, Intro and Ch. 1
Bonus: Original Google Paper
February 19
Pariser, The Filter Bubble, Ch. 2-3
February 21
Pariser, The Filter Bubble, Ch. 4-5
February 24
Pariser, The Filter Bubble, Ch. 6-8
February 26
Sunstein, #Republic, Preface and Ch. 1
February 28
Flaxman et al., "Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption" Notes
Bonus: Timely Court Case! (What's a Public Forum?)
Arrogance & Misinformation
March 2
Lynch, Know-It-All Society, Preamble and Ch. 1-2
Assignment #2 Due
Bonus: Timely Presidential Tweet!
March 4
Lynch, Know-It-All Society, Ch. 3-4
Midterm Paper Assignment
March 6
Lynch, Know-It-All Society, Ch. 5-6
Bonus: Blaming Post-Modernism
March 9
Pennycook and Rand, "Who Falls for Fake News?" Notes
Bonus: Cognitive Reflection Test
Univ. of Washington Fake News Program
March 11
Allcott and Gentzkow, "Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election" Notes
Bonus: Bayes' Theorem Video
March 13
Guess et al., "Exposure to Untrustworthy Websites in the 2016 U.S. Election" Notes
Social Networks
March 16
O'Connor and Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, Intro and Ch. 2 Notes
Bonus: O'Connor/Weatherall interview
Computational Philosophy (SEP)
March 18
Zollman, "The Communication Structure of Epistemic Communities" Notes
Bonus: Social Dimensions of Scientific Knowledge (SEP)
March 20
Rosenstock et al., "In Epistemic Networks, Is Less Really More?" Notes
March 23-27 No Class -- Spring Break
Midterm Paper Due (3/27)
March 30
Tornberg, "Echo Chambers and Viral Misinformation" Notes
Post-Midterm Paper Assignment #1
April 1
O'Connor and Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, Chapter 3 Notes
Bonus: Edward Bernays
Social Science Replication Crisis
April 3
O'Connor and Weatherall, The Misinformation Age, Chapter 4 Notes
Bonus: 3.5 Degrees of Separation
Polarization & Cascades
April 6
Sunstein, #Republic, Chapter 3
Shi, et al., "The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds" Notes
Paper Due
Post-Midterm Paper Assignment #2
Bonus: Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
Knowledge Lab (Univ. of Chicago)
April 8
Becker et al., "The Wisdom of Partisan Crowds" Notes
April 10
Sunstein, #Republic, Chapter 4
April 13
Sunstein, #Republic, Chapters 5-6
Paper Due
April 15
Sunstein, #Republic, Chapters 7-8
April 17
Sunstein, #Republic, Ch. 9-11
Special Topic: COVID-19
April 20 Polarization
Partisan Evaluations of Trump, etc.
Bonus: Do Some Research
Racial and Urban/Rural Disparity
April 22 Misinformation (General)
"Types, Sources, and Claims..."
"Misinformation...Public Health Data"
Bonus: Fake Animal News
April 24. Social Media
"...Misinformation on Social Media"
"Quantifying Misinformation...Twitter"
"Misinformation...Facebook...Twitter"
Bonus: Bots!
April 27 Structure of Scientific Communication
"...How Scientists Communicate"
Bonus: Scientific Preprints
April 29 "Fake News" and Politics
Partisanship and Social Distancing, etc.
Bonus: Politics of Reopening
May 6
Final Paper Due