Prince Henry—These lies are like the father that begets them: gross as a mountain; open, palpable. Why, thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, obscene, greasy tallow-keech— Falstaff—What! art thou mad? art thou mad? Is not the truth the truth? (William Shakespeare, King Henry IV) Falstaff’s lie that […]
This is an online recording of the plenary panel that I was a part of the the Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education. The keynote panel was on ‘Preparing critical students for the post-truth era – key research questions’ and featured Neil Harrison (University […]
I am very pleased to announce a Special Issue of the Springer journal Postdigital Science & Education which I have guest-edited with Alison MacKenzie. This Issue is on the theme of Lies, Bullshit and Fake News Online: Should We Be Worried? and is dated at Volume 2, Issue […]
I have co-written a Commentary piece for the new journal Postdigital Science & Education (Springer) entitled Lies, bullshit & fake news online: Some epistemological concerns (see link). The article is a brief commentary on some ideas that my co-writer Alison MacKenzie and I have been discussing in relation […]
Here are the slides to a guest talk delivered at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at Edinburgh University on the theme ‘Just Google it! Digital Literacy & epistemologies of ignorance’: A version of the same talk was delivered at a symposium in the annual conference of […]
