Coming July 24:
lt's fake news! Or is it? Disrupting mis/disinformation
At 12:00 p.m., July 24, the Bellingham City Club will host its next program with lunch in person at:
Bellingham Yacht Club
2625 S Harbor Loop Dr.
Purchase of tickets in advance is required; click here to register.
Member price is $25; non-member price is $30; youth under 25 is $10; program only tickets (no meal or table seating) are $10
Attendance is limited to 150.
Registration closes at 8:00pm, Sunday, July 21. Doors open at 11:30.
Caterer: Guud Bowls
We swim in a sea of information — in newspapers and online newsrooms; on television, radio and podcasts; in social media and email from friends, family ... and from strangers. Not all of the information that flows our way is helpful, useful, or even true. With access from disparate sources, it is often difficult to recognize which is disinformation, misinformation, malinformation, and accurate information.
How do we determine what is accurate or true?
When inundated with a constant stream of unverified input, people may reject true information and the people who are sharing different, more accurate information as well.
As we prepare to enter another political season, join Western Washington University’s Professor of Psychology, Dr. Ira Hyman, as he shares what we know about the misinformation and disinformation, its prevalence, how to identify it, and what we and others can do to disrupt mis- and disinformation and prevent its spread.
Speaker:
Dr. Ira Hyman is a Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and Ph.D. from Emory University. He has published research on how false ideas stick with us, how conspiracy theories take shape, how song lyrics are remembered, the creation of false childhood memories, collaborative remembering, memory for traumatic events, inattentional blindness, and eyewitness memory. He even has evidence to support the intrusive so called “ear worm” — that song you just can’t seem to get out of your head.