Professor Whitney Phillips
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University
Recorded:
17 Feb 2021
17 Feb 2021
Speakers:
With Professor Whitney Phillips, Dr Ryan M. Milner, and Dr Felix M. Simon
With Professor Whitney Phillips, Dr Ryan M. Milner, and Dr Felix M. Simon
Filming venue:
Online Webinar
Event Series:
Wednesday Webinars 20/21
Wednesday Webinars 20/21
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Information Landscape, co-authored by Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner, employs a series of ecological metaphors to describe our present information landscape and to explain the various network changes that brought us to this moment. While these metaphors provide a useful, inclusive entry-point into pressing ethical and political issues, they also pose some methodological challenges. This talk discusses both the positives and the negatives of metaphor as argument. It also discusses how and why Phillips and Milner chose to translate You Are Here’s metaphors into a children’s book.
Speakers
Dr Ryan M. Milner
Associate Chair, Department of Communications, College of Charleston
Dr Felix M. Simon
Research Associate
Felix is a Research Fellow in AI and News at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and a former DPhil student at the OII. A former Leverhulme and Dieter Schwarz Scholar, he researches AI in journalism and the news.