Brown Bag: Finding Our Way in a "Post-Truth" Era

In an era of filter bubbles, partisan journalism, and social media, how can we find reliable and balanced sources of information? Are attempts to undermine trust in the news media a form of censorship? The Lafayette Libraries has invited four faculty members--Il Hyun Cho (government and law), Jon Dahl (computer science), Katherine Groo (film and media studies), and Joe Shieber (philosophy)--to examine questions surrounding truth in the news from their different disciplinary perspectives. Please join us for a campus conversation that we hope will allow us all to think more deeply about how we find and consume news and how changes in news media affect our lives and our society.

If this is a topic that interests you, please also join the Libraries on February 7 for the 2018 Hatfield lecture with Kevin Young, poet and author of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News.

Lunch will be provided.