{"id":1209,"date":"2018-02-26T16:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:07:05","slug":"fake-news-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2018\/02\/26\/fake-news-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <em>Pacific Standard<\/em> article &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/news\/how-to-immunize-yourself-against-fake-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How to Immunize Yourself Against Fake News&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; author Tom Jacobs argues, &#8220;it&#8217;s imperative that citizens become more media savvy, and learn to distinguish between authentic information and dubious material designed to sow discord.&#8221; The articles discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakenewsgame.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.fakenewsgame.org<\/a>, a\u00a0new online game that invites\u00a0users to assume the role of a fake news disseminator. &#8220;This gives users insight into both the mindset of such propagandists, and the techniques they use,&#8221; Jacobs notes.\u00a0\u00a0A pilot study of the game played by 95 high school students in the Netherlands produced encouraging results. Hopefully other studies will provide confirmation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Pacific Standard article &#8212; &#8220;How to Immunize Yourself Against Fake News&#8221; &#8212; author Tom Jacobs argues, &#8220;it&#8217;s imperative that citizens become more media savvy, and learn to distinguish between authentic information and dubious material designed to sow discord.&#8221; The articles discusses www.fakenewsgame.org, a\u00a0new online game that invites\u00a0users to assume the role of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214,29102],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture","tag-social-science-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}