Possible sources for propaganda messages appearing on gems in the Middle and Late Roman Republic. Introduction It...
Communication
The massive distribution of posters across the United States during World War II was a challenge. The...
Studies show that health misinformation on social media has led actions. By Dr. Monica WangAssociate Professor of...
Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts. How Were Indigenous Languages...
What makes something news? Can we even say that it is something recent? Let us begin with...
Radio’s connection to movement organizing has a long and rich history. When did you last use radio...
The means and networks of communication in early modern New France. Introduction In this day and age...
The various postal systems that transversed Europe, and, crucially, how they were interconnected. By Nikolaus Schobesberger, Paul...
Script developed from simple to more complex writing systems. Introduction Script is the written expression of a language. Cuneiform,...
Esperanto, Klingon, “Oirish,” and others. John Wallis is all but forgotten except among historians and mathematicians, but...
Modern scholars consider writing as one of the characteristic features of civilization, while the ancients regarded it...
Poetry may well have been Maffeo Barberini’s first and most important inclination. Introduction In the early years...
Proper persuasion in a world where social media and echo chambers make manipulation easy. Introduction The 2024...
The aggressive efforts of social media platforms to police language are causing more problems. Introduction A linguistic...
The idea of sending signals from one distant place to another has been in use since antiquity....
Two concepts can help explain why society seems increasingly unable to agree on basic facts. Introduction Does...
The radio connected us to the world more deeply than the technologies that followed. The digital age,...
The need for recognition as the social context within which claims of right and good are asserted....
Language can provoke violence between groups, especially when people paint others as threats. Introduction Events like the riots...
A philosopher unpacks the ‘ethics of belief’ for an age awash in bad information. Introduction The impact...
Whatever your age, you can be a critically news-literate person. Like many citizens around the world, you...
What’s true and what’s not? An expert in media literacy explains how to evaluate information. Introduction Have...
Before the internet meme, there were posters. Once upon a time, posters full of dazzling images and...
The spread of misinformation in many pandemics has undermined efforts to contain infections and prevent deaths. Introduction...
A language scientist explains that talking was never invented but has evolved over hundreds of thousands of...
Why conspiracy theories are so popular, identifying the traits of conspiratorial thinking, and effective debunking strategies. Published...
Since antiquity people have harnessed sound as a weapon, and the practice continues – in new high-tech...
Reasons for the natural human tendency to avoid or reject new information that runs counter to what...
People can become consumed by this information they only seek out online while calling it “research”. Kim...
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, propaganda techniques became more refined and effective. Pre-Modern Precedents...