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What is Truth in the Era of Bots?
I am teaching a course about misinformation and the Bible this semester and Pilate’s famous...
September 2024
September 14, 2024
Worse Than Orwellian: Can Information Bubbles Be Burst?
I was already thinking about writing a post on this topic of information bubbles long...
January 2023
January 30, 2023
Google and ChatGPT vs. the Star Trek Computers
Here's the flyer for a talk I'll be giving at Georgia College and State University...
October 2021
October 13, 2021
QAnon Conspirituality and QAmerican Culture
This isn't the first time that I and other scholars in religious studies have turned...
August 2021
August 25, 2021
Spot-on analysis from my fellow Patheos blogger Fred Clark: I still love The X-Files, but...
April 2021
April 14, 2021
Just making the pun in the title would have been good enough reason to write...
February 2021
February 27, 2021
Polybook: A New App for Lifelong Learners and #LearningInPublic
It was great to have a Zoom conversation with Joe White yesterday. Joe is the...
November 2020
November 30, 2020
When Donald Trump makes his claims about voting fraud and the election being “stolen,” he...
November 28, 2020
Warning Labels for Christianity?
We live in an era when we have become accustomed to information about the contents...
November 23, 2020
The Truthiness Will Set You Free
I remain indebted to Stephen Colbert for coming up with the concept of 'truthiness'. As...
November 22, 2020
I have focused a lot on the way the Star Wars franchise depicts the two...
November 06, 2020
The phrase "do your research" gets bandied about online a lot. For most people this...
November 04, 2020
All across the United States there are people who wonder how anyone could possibly support...
November 14, 2019
Surrogate Knowledge and Information Literacy
This article gets things exactly right. Digital skills cannot be either an "add-on" or the...
August 2019
August 19, 2019
Research and Truth-Seeking in a Post-Truth Context #CFP
When new technology makes a skill more essential than ever, I don’t think we can...
June 2019
June 30, 2019
Echo Chambers and Polarization
Here's a round-up of some recent pieces addressing political and other forms of ideological polarization....
May 2019
May 17, 2019
Is an Appeal to Consensus an Argument?
In response to a question about appeal to consensus on Facebook, and the suggestion that...
March 2019
March 03, 2019
Sonora Review has a call for submissions that might be of interest to some authors...
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February 28, 2019
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September 30, 2018
I really like this thought from the late Kim Fabricius: Information is power. Alas, so...
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January 04, 2018
Wikipediatricians and Ways of Knowing
Until relatively recently, I had no idea that there was such a word as "Wikipediatrician." But having come...
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December 26, 2017
A while back I was told that there is a Wikipedia game "Seven Steps to Jesus" which...
December 22, 2017
Teaching Information Literacy Using the Bible (or, Is Jesus’ Birth in Bethlehem “Fake News”?)
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October 14, 2017
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May 11, 2017
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Applying the Baloney-Detection Kit
Skeptic magazine recently shared the Baloney-Detection Kit infographic below. I would challenge P. Z. Myers...
April 07, 2017
Why Do We Believe Stuff That’s Not True?
'Why do we believe stuff that's not true?' he said, and I said, 'because it's easier...
March 2017
March 05, 2017
Fake News is Old News in Religious Studies
It was recently drawn to my attention that the fact-checking and debunking website Snopes links...
February 2017
February 09, 2017
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