Campus Misinformation - Vivian, Bradford (Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Prof
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In Campus Misinformation, Bradford Vivian shows how misinformation about colleges and universities has proliferated in recent years, with potentially dangerous results. Popular but highly misleading narratives about the state of free speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses impede constructive deliberation about higher education while promoting suspect ideas about First Amendment freedoms and democratic participation. A powerful demonstration of how disingenuous information can become accepted as fact, this book should matter to anyone concerned about the state of higher education and our democracy alike.…mehr

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In Campus Misinformation, Bradford Vivian shows how misinformation about colleges and universities has proliferated in recent years, with potentially dangerous results. Popular but highly misleading narratives about the state of free speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses impede constructive deliberation about higher education while promoting suspect ideas about First Amendment freedoms and democratic participation. A powerful demonstration of how disingenuous information can become accepted as fact, this book should matter to anyone concerned about the state of higher education and our democracy alike.
Autorenporträt
Bradford Vivian is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and past Director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at Penn State University. His previous books include Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture (OUP 2017) and Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again (2010), which received the Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address awarded by the National Communication Association.