[PhilPhys] Annual Lecture Series - Maya J. Goldenberg - This Friday 2/23 View Maya's short intro. now

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The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our upcoming Annual Lecture Series presentation. You can view Maya Goldenberg's short introduction video at:  https://youtu.be/wGIf7D578L4<https://youtu.be/wGIf7D578L4>.  Please join us in person in room 1008 on the 10th floor of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh.
If you are unable to join in person then join online with this Zoom link: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99073578350.
This lecture will also be live streamed on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.
Annual Lecture Series – Maya J. Goldenberg<https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/philosophy/people/maya-j-goldenberg>
Friday, February 23 @ 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm EST
This talk will be streamed through Zoom, found here: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/99073578350


Title: Myth-Busting or Meaning-Making? Public Science Communications and the Infodemic


Abstract: A growth area of public-facing science communications during the COVID years has been the counter-offence against misinformation, that is, fighting the “infodemic.” Since the start of the pandemic, legions of well-intended healthcare practitioners, scientists, and concerned citizens have taken to social media platforms to debunk myths and provide corrective facts. These efforts were buoyed by emerging cognitive and social psychology research into strategies for addressing misinformation, such as debunking, pre-emptive inoculation, and nudging. Yet this concentrated focus on the epistemic status of propositional claims (i.e., separating “facts” from “myths”) has serious limits. The field of communications research offers important insights that undermine the soundness of “myth-versus-fact” message frames as public communications practice. Serious consideration of communication as meaning-making, especially in the fraught social context in which the infodemic has flourished, points to difficulties with the interpretive story line that the myth-busting message frame conveys. These considerations support an alternative focus on trust-building for science communications to the publics.



Light refreshments will follow the lecture in CL 1008.

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