Author Archives

• Trust in a Social and Digital World, Mark Alfano and Colin Klein

  By SERRC on October 3, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  The average Australian spends almost 10 hours a week on social media; a majority report that checking Facebook is one of the first things they do in the morning (Sensis 2017). Recent revelations about fake news and extremist sentiments spread… Read More ›

• Fake News, Conspiracy, and Intellectual Vice, Marco Meyer

  By SERRC on October 3, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Fake news and conspiracy theories spreading over the internet are a major challenge to public debate. How can we address this challenge? I focus on the dispositions of individuals, as there is some evidence that there are strong individual differences… Read More ›

• Beyond Testimony: When Online Information Sharing is not Testifying, Emily Sullivan

  By SERRC on October 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  In a game of telephone, or as we called it “whisper down the lane”, someone whispers a sentence to someone else, and then that person whispers it to yet another person, and on and on it goes until the end… Read More ›

• Vices of Distrust, J. Adam Carter and Daniella Meehan

  By SERRC on October 3, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the first things that comes to mind when we think of the special issue’s theme, “Trust in a Social and Digital World” is the epidemic of ‘fake news’ and a cluster of trust-relevant vices we commonly associate with… Read More ›

• Richly Trustworthy Allies, William Tuckwell

  By SERRC on October 3, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  Here’s a plausible definition of an ally: an individual who supports a non-dominant group’s pursuit of their justice-based interests. One way to develop a more detailed theory of an ally is by specifying ‘support a non-dominant group’s pursuit of their… Read More ›

• Round Pegs, Square Holes: A Review of Being an Interdisciplinary Academic, Joshua Penrod

  By SERRC on September 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Sometimes it takes more than one discipline to write a book review. Sometimes it even takes more than one book to review a book. My goal in this brief essay is to do some justice (in the form of a… Read More ›

• Collaborative Review Part 2: What Makes Interdisciplinarity Unique? Samantha Jo Fried

  By SERRC on September 27, 2019 • ( 1 )

  I want to focus in on Amanda’s question: “What does interdisciplinarity look like when it is situated within a discipline, as is the case with Science and Technology Studies?” Then, I will attempt to answer her question: “What, if anything,… Read More ›

• Collaborative Review, Part 1, on Being an Interdisciplinary Academic, Amanda K Phillips de Lucas

  By SERRC on September 25, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  An oft repeated observation in Catherine Lyall’s recent book, Being an Interdisciplinary Academic, states that the phenomenon she describes are “not unique to interdisciplinarity.” The text, which draws from the analysis of interviews with UK based academics who received awards… Read More ›

• Reply to Claus-Christian Carbon: “Conspiracy Theory,” a Valid World-Shaping Scientific and Analytic Category, Lee Basham

  By SERRC on September 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “Conspiracy theories” are reviled by some, typically “elites” of limited kinds—political, corporate media and academic—and in many cases suspected to be true and even believed by far, far more people. This reality puzzles some, reassures others … [please read below… Read More ›

• The Philosophy of Taking Conspiracy Theories Seriously, Ori Freiman

  By SERRC on September 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  During the last few decades, the proliferation of interest in conspiracy theories has grown tremendously. What was once a niche interest of the very few is now a widespread phenomenon in our culture—from political campaigns and mainstream news, to the… Read More ›