Course Details
914: Navigating Today's Polluted Information Ecosystem
July 7-9
11:45 AM -
1:15 PM
Online
This course explores how disinformation and propaganda are affecting individual decision-making, public policy, and everything in between. In three sessions, Truth in Common founder Deanna Troust will help participants understand these dynamics and offer tips for what they can do to avoid being manipulated—and serve as a resource for others.
Session 1: terms, examples and the cognitive science behind why falsehoods take hold
Session 2: the news ecosystem and how to be an information curator
Session 3: best practices for diminishing partisan animosity and having respectful conversations again
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: Online
Hours of Reading: No reading
Study Group Leader(s):
Deanna TroustDeanna Troust is an award-winning communications strategist, writer and founder of Truth in Common, a nonprofit that forwards human-centered, pluralistic solutions to the misinformation epidemic. She leads workshops for community members and organizations, often at public libraries; speaks to professional groups; publishes a newsletter and lifts up communicators as critical players in tackling this foundational global issue. A two-time entrepreneur, she also helps nonprofits tell their impact stories and develop equity-centered communications strategies under her consulting arm, 3 Stories Communications.
Truth in Common's approach is informed by Deanna's 25+-year career in inclusive social change, including over a decade in leadership at a DC-area communications firm, plus various projects in the disinformation research, pro-democracy and press freedom spaces. Truth in Common is a member of the ListenFirst Coalition and the National Association of Media Literacy Education.
Deanna serves on the board of DC International School and is a graduate of Cornell University,. A native of western New York, she lives in Washington, DC's Adams Morgan neighborhood with her husband, two daughters and a rescue dog.