A viral theory of post-truth

Peters, Michael A.; McLaren, Peter; Jandrić, Petar

doi:10.1080/00131857.2020.1750090

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“…More broadly, my concern, much like Joshua Lederberg's and Bruno Latour's suggestion in relation to the pathogens that cause pandemics, is that the war metaphor that aims to put a complete stop to misinformation and conspiracies is hardly going to be useful. In the present times, when access to world wide web has become instantaneous, an era characterised by some as 'viral modernity' (Peters et al, 2020), we will have to learn to live with misinformation and conspiracies and their virality and in order to better deal with them we need to critically and carefully study misinformation and conspiracies.…”

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“…10. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/health/verify-plandemic-documentary-fullmisinformation/531-448b1c58-cc77-445b-a862-ac7a37b876d0 11. https://www.wthr.com/article/news/health/verify-plandemic-documentary-fullmisinformation/531-448b1c58-cc77-445b-a862-ac7a37b876d0 12. According to Peters et al (2020, p. 3), 'COVID-19 pandemic is the first global exercise of bioinformationalist viral modernity where viral behavior of the … coronavirus … is dialectically intertwined with non-biological viral information and viral media'. 13. https://www.bitchute.com/video/TuzSyJkjvS4d/.…”

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“…I also analyse how a network of social media and social influencers resulted in the 'virality' of the video. I use the verb virality to highlight the need to not only focus on the veracity of claims, but also on how such claims travel, as has been emphasised by several news reporters and social scientists (see, e.g., Peters et al, 2020). 12 Virality, apart from the obvious reference to the speed with which information travels, can also create or at least add credibility.…”

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Anti-science Misinformation and Conspiracies: COVID–19, Post-truth, and Science & Technology Studies (STS)

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2021

Science, Technology and Society

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COVID–19 has not only resulted in nearly two and a half million deaths globally but it has also spawned a pandemic of misinformation and conspiracies. In this article I examine COVID–19 misinformation and conspiracies in the United States (US). These misinformation and conspiracies have been commonly argued to be anti-science. I argue, although it is important to rebut false information and stop their spread, social scientists need to analyse how such anti-science claims are discursively framed and interpreted. Specifically, I show how the framing of the anti-science conspiracies utilise the credibility of science and scientists. I also explore how the COVID–19 misinformation and conspiracies were given different meaning among different social groups. The article is divided into three sections. In the first section I analyse the discursive emplotment of the Plandemic video that had Dr Judy Mikovits presenting several COVID–19 conspiracy theories and went viral before it was taken down from major social media platforms. I show how the video draws on the credibility of science, scientists, and scientific journals to present misinformation and conspiracies claims against vaccination, mask wearing, etc. The second section explores how COVID–19 misinformation and conspiracies were interpreted among the African-American community by drawing on the history of black community’s experiences in the US and as such how their interpretations stand in contrast to the interpretations of the COVID–19 misinformation and conspiracies among the White community. The last section analyses the role of STS in engaging with anti-science and post-truth issues and emphasises the need to excavate genealogies of the present even with regard to misinformation and conspiracies.

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2021

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“…In particular, hospitality, tourism, travel and export higher education, all collapsed suddenly with no digital fallback (see Jandrić et al 2020). Media, especially around the 2020 US election, became increasing partisan and polarized (Peters et al 2020b). The only institution that continued to function was the share market that boosted finance capital and created decoupling effects that seemingly denied the reality of ongoing massive unemployment and its social disruption.…”

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Biodigital Philosophy, Technological Convergence, and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

2021

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“…Bioinformationalism relates to parallels between the propagation of fake news in social media echo chambers, and the evolution and transmission of infectious diseases (Peters, McLaren, and Jandrić 2020 ). Peters et al ( 2020 ) point out that the Covid-19 pandemic is the first instance in which a biological virus has become dialectically intertwined with nonbiological viral information. What the authors are suggesting is that a biological virus and nonbiological viral information are working in tandem to accelerate the spread the virus.…”

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Covid-19 pandemic and the prospects of education in South Africa

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The Covid-19 pandemic has caused havoc in the world, radically changing our lives and raising new and old questions, both existential and educational. This pandemic has revealed the underbelly of South African society in general and its education system more specifically—it has laid bare the gross inequalities that are the legacies of apartheid and the consequences of neoliberal capitalism. Drawing on ideas articulated in the four introductory chapters of the International Handbook of Curriculum Research , edited by William Pinar in 2014, this article discusses Covid-19 and the prospects of education in South Africa. The article shows how understanding the wisdom of indigenous traditions along with the moral dimensions of education, race, and the new technologies of surveillance, neoliberalism, and education can provide a nuanced awareness of the nature of the Covid-19 pandemic. It then explores the implications of such insights for the field of curriculum studies and, where relevant, for the school curriculum. It concludes by showing how these broad themes intersect and gel around the notion of Ubuntu-currere.

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A viral theory of post-truth

Cited by 35 publications

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Anti-science Misinformation and Conspiracies: COVID–19, Post-truth, and Science & Technology Studies (STS)

Anti-science Misinformation and Conspiracies: COVID–19, Post-truth, and Science & Technology Studies (STS)

Biodigital Philosophy, Technological Convergence, and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

Covid-19 pandemic and the prospects of education in South Africa

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