Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation
How can we build back truth online? In this book, researcher Leslie F. Stebbins provides solutions for repairing our existing social media platforms and building better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.
Stebbins provides a road map with six paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit us, how we can learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital spaces, how to build tools to reduce harmful practices, how platform companies can prioritize the public good, how we can repair journalism, and how to strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new, healthier digital public squares.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leslie F. Stebbins is an independent researcher and the Director of research4Ed where her clients include Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Education, Tufts University and the Gates Foundation. Previously, she worked for twenty years as a research and instructional design librarian at Brandeis University. She has an M.Ed. from the Technology Innovation & Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an M.S. in Information Science from Simmons College. She is the author of numerous articles and five books. Her new book: Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Visit her website for more information.