Presented By: Department of American Culture
Truth V. Truthiness
Cloaked Websites, Politics & Propaganda in the Digital Age
Join Jessie Daniels of CUNY as she discusses internet propaganda.
The Internet enables new strategies for propaganda that are simultaneously deceptive, difficult to detect and potentially effective at eroding the foundation of progressive political action. In this talk, Daniels provides a tour of cloaked sites, which disguise a range of political agendas, from the white supremacists owned URL MartinLutherKing dot org, to Teen Breaks dot com to exhort young women about the dangers of so-called “post –abortion syndrome,” a pro-life rhetorical strategy disguised as a medical diagnosis, coal industry sites like Americans for Balanced Energy Choices which challenge facts of global warming. Daniels connects these digital era examples of propaganda on the popular Internet to political satire such as Stephen Colbert’s arch-conservative character to argue that we are at an epistemological crossroads between “truth,” and “truthiness” that raises important political questions about social justice.
Part of the Feminist Digital Pedagogies series.
#FemTechNet
Sponsored by Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, The Department of American Culture, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, and the Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts and Culture. Additional supporters to be named at event.
The Internet enables new strategies for propaganda that are simultaneously deceptive, difficult to detect and potentially effective at eroding the foundation of progressive political action. In this talk, Daniels provides a tour of cloaked sites, which disguise a range of political agendas, from the white supremacists owned URL MartinLutherKing dot org, to Teen Breaks dot com to exhort young women about the dangers of so-called “post –abortion syndrome,” a pro-life rhetorical strategy disguised as a medical diagnosis, coal industry sites like Americans for Balanced Energy Choices which challenge facts of global warming. Daniels connects these digital era examples of propaganda on the popular Internet to political satire such as Stephen Colbert’s arch-conservative character to argue that we are at an epistemological crossroads between “truth,” and “truthiness” that raises important political questions about social justice.
Part of the Feminist Digital Pedagogies series.
#FemTechNet
Sponsored by Digital Studies at the University of Michigan, The Department of American Culture, the Institute for Research on Women & Gender, and the Cohn Fund in the Department of Screen Arts and Culture. Additional supporters to be named at event.
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