We will also stream this seminar via Zoom.
For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu

Dannagal Young
Department of Communication
University of Delaware

Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation

In this talk, based on her new book, “Wrong,” Dr. Dannagal Young unpacks how our social identities (how we think of ourselves as part of our political teams) encourage us to believe things that are untrue. She explores how our media system fuels “us versus them” dynamics in ways that reinforce and distill these identities, keeping our demand for identity-reinforcing falsehoods high. Fortunately, there are ways out of this doom loop, and Dr. Young will explain what we all can do to reduce our appetite for “wrongness.”

A pizza lunch will be served. Please bring your own beverage.