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Critical Literacy Is at the Heart of the Answer 批判性素养是答案的核心

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211006

Emma Pauncefort

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Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211021

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The Kony 2012 Campaign: A Milestone of Visual Storytelling for Social Engagement Kony 2012活动:社会参与视觉叙事的里程碑

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211012

M. Fusari

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Fact to Fake: The Media World as It Was and Is Today* 从事实到虚假:媒体世界的过去和现在*

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211008

Michael J. Bugeja

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Decentralised Verification Technologies and the Web 去中心化验证技术和网络

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211018

Allan Third, J. Domingue

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Post-news Journalism in the Post-Enlightenment Era 后启蒙时代的后新闻新闻

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211009

Hossein Derakhshan

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Societal Reorientation via Programmable Trust: A Case for Piloting New Models of Open Governance in Education 通过可编程信任实现社会再定位:教育开放治理新模式试点案例

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211007

W. Balser, Stephen Diasio, Taylor Kendal

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Public Rebuttal, Reflection and Responsibility. Or an Inconvenient Answer to Fake News 公开反驳、反思与责任。或者是对假新闻的不便回答

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211011

Ruben Brave

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Two Sides to Every Story. The Truth, Post-truth, and the Blockchain Truth 每个故事都有两面。真相、后真相和区块链真相

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211017

J. Ellul, Alex Grech, Gordon J. Pace

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Post-truth Society: Toward a Dialogical Understanding of Truth 后真相社会:走向对真相的对话理解

Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-80043-906-120211002

J. Portelli, Soudeh Oladi

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