This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 Rob Wijnberg, De Correspondent Chair: Professor Peter Fray Comments by Lenore Taylor, The Guardian Australia Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, Post-Truth Initiative, UTS School of Communication and Sydney Democracy Network The Great Hall, the Quadrangle | 14 September 6pm Our news is broken. It informs us most about the least...
Co-hosted by Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative and the Sydney Democracy Network This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 There are many signs we’ve entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals to emotion and personal belief’ (OED). Critics...
Speaker: Shane Greenup Fake News has become a huge issue with a great deal of money and resources being invested into solving it. But have any of the suggested solutions got any chance of actually doing that? In this talk Greenup will look at the key...
When does evidence obscure the truth? Join us for a forum on the avoidable causes of wrongful conviction. Wrongful convictions can and do happen – it's a sad fact of the Australian legal system. This panel will look at how evidence in legal proceedings can inadvertently...
Presented by Sydney Ideas, Sydney Democracy Network and the Post-Truth Initiative Renowned journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses his favourite subjects: power and accountability, surveillance and privacy, Trump and fake news, threats to democracy, courage, and the role of journalism in giving a voice to perspectives and events that are ignored and silenced by...
Dr Alana Mann – April 27 From food scares to food scarcity, this is an industry that has been operating in post-truth mode for years. In the fields, laboratories and our kitchens scientific evidence and cultural rationality collide daily. This talk will tackle post-truth headlines on Green...
Seminar 3 in the Post-Truth Seminar Series 2017 This week the seminar series shifts its focus onto the issue of truth and rigour in academic research. Professor Jennifer Byrne will be examining processes of peer review and the increasingly competitive research environment in order to evaluate the...