Truth, Truthiness, and Post Truth with Professors Jackie Cason and

Truth, Truthiness, and Post Truth with Professors Jackie Cason and Heather Adams

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Truth, Truthiness, and Post Truths: Strategies for Navigating Our Media Landscape examines how the information landscape is changing. At the event, UAA English Professors Jackie Cason and Heather Adams offer ways to understand news and various media. What drives our choices in how we share news and what remains useful in “old school” strategies is discussed Professor Jackie Cason is the Composition Coordinator for the Department of English at UAA. Her research focuses on ways to embed information literacy throughout the writing curriculum. Dr. Heather Brook Adams specializes in, and teaches courses in, rhetoric and gender, rhetorical theory, and feminist historiography.

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