Deciding What's True in a Polarized Society

Deciding What’s True in a Polarized Society

What’s fake? What’s true?  Professor Michael Wagner talks about fake news, fact-checking, selective exposure to like-minded media outlets, and describes their implications for our democracy.

Michael W. Wagner (Bachelor of Journalism, University of Nebraska; Ph.D., Indiana University) is William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair of the Wisconsin Idea and Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he directs the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal. His work explores how individual interactions in the information ecosystem affect what people believe, what they want, and what they do.

This Badger Talks presentation is a partnership with the Rock County Civics Academy