Deciding What's True in a Polarized Society

Thursday, October 15, 2020: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Online via Zoom or by Phone

Professor Michael Wagner

UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication

FREE TO PLATO MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE LINK TO ATTEND.  Please register before the event starts.  Questions may be written in during the event.

In this lecture UW-Madison Professor Michael Wagner will review research on fake news, fact-checking, and selective exposure to like minded media outlets.  He will describe the implications of each of these for democracy.

As the lecture is online, you can use your computer or smartphone to access the lecture and see the speaker and slides during the presentation. You will not be visible during the lecture, but you will be able to chat with the speaker by typing in your comments.

If you do not have a computer or smartphone you can also use your regular phone to dial a phone number and listen to the talk without seeing the slides.

Questions about the lecture? - contact the lecture organizer, Joy Cardin, at cardinjoy@gmail.com

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY:

Michael Wagner is a Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who also holds affiliations with the Department of Political Science and the LaFollette School of Public Affairs.  Wagner directs the Physiology and Communication Effects (PACE) Lab, is a Senior Fellow with the Mass Communication Research Center, a faculty affiliate at the Center for Communication and Democracy, and a faculty affiliate at the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison.  He is also the Founding Director of the  Center for Communication and Civic Renewal  at UW-Madison.

He is co-author of Political Behavior of the American Electorate  and Mediated Democracy: Politics, the News and Citizenship in the 21st Century   His website is at  https://prowag.me.