Yoon, Susan A. Chinn, Clark Noushad, Noora Richman, Thomas Hussain-Abidi, Huma Hunkar, Kyle Cottone, Amanda Katz, Jacqueline Mitkus, Erika Wendel, Daniel
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Frontiers in Education
Historic challenges in the biological sciences, such as the spread of disease and climate change, have created an unprecedented need for humans to engage with scientific information to address societal problems. However, understanding these socioscientific issues (SSI) can be hard due to the difficulty of comprehending their complex structures and ...
Bengtsson, Andreas
Bermúdez Vázquez, Manuel
Contemporary societies are suffering, in many cases, processes of political polarization accompanied by other elements that are equally worrying for the democracies. The increasing presence of demagogic discourse in the political arena only hinders the proper functioning of institutions. Polarization, populism and demagogy are elements that work in...
Carlsson, Eric Carbin, Maria Nilsson, Bo
In this paper, we engage with five Swedish universities’ discursive articulation of, and responses to, an alleged post-truth crisis in communication, aimed at the public. Taking discourse theory as our point of departure, the aim is to analyse how universities are trying to maintain or restore trustworthiness against a backdrop of problems with fac...
Reyes-Galindo, Luis
This article aims to diversify STS perspectives on populism by addressing a sequence of episodes of Mexican science policy in terms of clashes between populism and scientific communities. The article describes a reorientation of Mexican science policy that has destabilized the academic system during the present administration. Specifically, it look...
Sylvén, Emelie
Fernández Castrillo, Carolina Ramos Vera, Celia
The research is focused on the emerging practices of digital photojournalism in war contexts, in relation to the use of usergenerated content from social networks. The focal point is the coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict by the two main online newspapers of the belligerent countries: Ukrayinska Pravda and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. From the analysi...
Ljungblad, Ann-Louise
Since the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon has arisen on the global stage, as girls have increasingly begun to raise their voices. In an effort to achieve new philosophical understandings of contemporary childhoods in a post-truth era, the present article examines this Girl Rising movement from an existential perspective. In doing so, the a...
López Gill, Diana Patricia
A lot has been said about conspiracy theories and how they affect modern communication, but little has been explored about responding to misinformation with more misinformation. This article uses the examples of the movement Birds Aren’t Real and some Colombian site to show how the fun and creative communicative tools used by their creators, can gi...
Bellocchi, Alberto Davis, James Mills, Reece Arthars, Natasha Appanna, Subhashni
Science curriculum and pedagogy offer ideal avenues for teaching young people the critical thinking skills they need to live in a post-truth world. Drawing on the theory of epistemic cognition, we present a selection of research-based pedagogies that have been shown to be effective in developing school students’ understanding of knowledge and how i...
