In this episode of Communicating for Impact, Patrice Buzzanell invites Tim Schatto-Eckrodt, Lena Frischlich, and Jason Hannan to discuss issues of online discourse and misinformation in the era of social media. The guests call for public education to rekindle a spirit of trust and to promote media literacy. Through education, they hope to encourage students and teachers to articulate why we might trust in some institutions and be skeptical towards others.

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Featuring

Patrice Buzzanell

Tim Schatto-Eckrodt

Lena Frischlich

Jason Hannan

Sponsors

College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida

More about the host and guests:

Patrice Buzzanell

Professor and Past Chair, the Department of Communication

University of South Florida

Tim Schatto-Eckrodt

Research Associate

Hamburg University, Germany

Mastodon: @Kudusch@social.tchncs.de

Website: https://schatto-eckrodt.de

Twitter: @Kudusch

Lena Frischlich

Interim Prof. Dr. Lena Frischlich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU, Germany), starting October 2023: Associate Prof. Digital Democracy Centre, University of Southern Denmark (SDU, Denmark)

Twitter: @lenafrescamente

LinkedIn: Lena Frischlich

Instagram: @lenafrischlich

Jason Hannan

Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications

University of Winnipeg

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jason.hannan.3

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jasonwhannan

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-hannan-3065a654/

Works Referenced

Hannan, J. (2018). Trolling ourselves to death? Social media and post-truth politics. European Journal of Communication, 33(2), 214-226.

Postman, N. (2005). Amusing ourselves to death: Public discourse in the age of show business. Penguin.

Hannan, J. (Ed.). (2016). Truth in the public sphere. Lexington Books.

Carr, N. (2020). The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains. WW Norton & Company.

Hayles, N. K. (2001). The Transformation of Narrative and the Materiality of Hypertext. Narrative, 9(1), 21–39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20107227

Arendt, H. (1973). The origins of totalitarianism [1951]. New York.

Freire, P. (1996). Pedagogy of the oppressed (revised). New York: Continuum, 356, 357-358.

Copy and Audio Editor

Dominic Bonelli