Communication – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:41:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Communication – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Context and Extrapolation: Towards the Study of World Misinformation https://brewminate.com/context-and-extrapolation-towards-the-study-of-world-misinformation/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:40:56 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267467 Misinformation is a global problem, but our understanding of it is anything but global. Over 80% of what

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]]> People Are Getting Their News from AI, and It’s Altering Their Views https://brewminate.com/people-are-getting-their-news-from-ai-and-its-altering-their-views/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:40:10 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267486 Even when information is factually accurate, how it’s presented can introduce subtle biases. As large language models increasingly

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]]> How Mass Communication Reshaped Political Belief in the Early Modern World https://brewminate.com/how-mass-communication-reshaped-political-belief-in-the-early-modern-world/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:20:17 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267250 What distinguishes the early modern period is not the emergence of disagreement itself but the stabilization of disagreement

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]]> How Chatting with A.I. Bots Shifts Political Beliefs https://brewminate.com/how-chatting-with-a-i-bots-shifts-political-beliefs/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:19:45 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=267081 Chatbots have a greater sway on policy issues than video ads, and that spouting the most information, even

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]]> How Barbed Wire became America’s First Rural Telephone Network https://brewminate.com/how-barbed-wire-became-americas-first-rural-telephone-network/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:12:11 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266943 Barbed wire telephony reveals a dimension of American technological history that developed outside the pathways typically associated with

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]]> Should Big Tech Down-Rank Polarizing Content to Lower Social Media Temperature? https://brewminate.com/should-big-tech-down-rank-polarizing-content-to-lower-social-media-temperature/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:11:37 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266796 Testing the impact of alternative feed algorithms on live platforms is difficult, and such studies have only recently

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]]> The “Persian Debater”: Simeon of Beth Arsham and the Contest for Orthodoxy beyond Rome https://brewminate.com/the-persian-debater-simeon-of-beth-arsham-and-the-contest-for-orthodoxy-beyond-rome/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:56:08 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266309 Simeon of Beth Arsham stands as a figure shaped by the intersecting pressures of theology, politics, and cross-border

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]]> Debate Rarely Changes Minds: Information, Identity, and the Quiet Work of Persuasion https://brewminate.com/debate-rarely-changes-minds-information-identity-and-the-quiet-work-of-persuasion/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:55:33 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266319 Public debate will always have a place in democratic life, but its structure makes it one of the

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]]> No Obligation to Engage: Boundaries, Digital Life, and the Politics of Expectation https://brewminate.com/no-obligation-to-engage-boundaries-digital-life-and-the-politics-of-expectation/ Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:54:20 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=266330 The expectation to debate or justify oneself is especially harmful when the conversation involves misinformation or hostile rhetoric.

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]]> Stop and Think: Jumping to Responses before Thoughtful Consideration https://brewminate.com/stop-and-think-jumping-to-responses-before-thoughtful-consideration/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:04:49 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=247560 Reflection takes time. By Dr. Robert B. TalisseW. Alton Jones Professor of PhilosophyVanderbilt University Introduction When’s the last

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