Fake News

On Marine Le Pen and Performing Gender

We talk with Dorit Geva about the far-right in France. Dorit Geva is a political sociologist and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University, where she is overseeing CEU’s new BA programs in Vienna. Since 2013 she has been studying the populist radical-right in Europe. She has also written on the gender politics of military service, including her book, Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States (2013).

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Why Fake News Is So Successful

We speak with Thomas J. Froehlich about Fake News. Thomas J. Froehlich, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, School of Information, Kent State University (27 years). His teaching areas included:  information science, information ethics, information architecture, knowledge management, network and software resources, online searching, computer programming and user interface design. He was the chief architect and former Director of the Master of Science Program in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State University (2001-2011), recently transformed into Master’s degrees in Knowledge Management, User Experience Design and Health Informatics.  Dr. Froehlich is currently working on a book titled 10 Lessons for the Age of Disinformation.  

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