Call for Papers: Mind Over Chatter Symposium at Indiana University Kokomo on Sept. 13 (Deadline June 21)

We are most interested in exploring how the practice of mindfulness–in a variety of forms and formats–can contribute to and deepen our students’ understanding of the current epistemological moment and the way misinformation flows, functions, and moves through the digital media ecosystem. Approaches may draw from any of the following topics, though presenters are encouraged to depart from and elaborate on these ideas as they see fit:

• Using mindfulness techniques/habits of mind approaches to teach digital information literacy (e.g., confirmation bias, truth-default theory, mere exposure effect, epistemic dependence, etc.)
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence in classroom/teaching applications
• The epistemology/structure/theory of network propaganda, dis- and misinformation, manipulation, and the “post-Truth” era
• The architecture of social media networks, especially as it pertains to the spread of disinformation, propaganda, and problematic information in general
• Pedagogical approaches to digital literacy/teaching resistance to disinformation
• Misinformation in science, medicine, and technology
• The history of misinformation, histories of misinformation
• Network theory and the role of networks/social media in spreading misinformation: networks and actors, algorithms, micro-targeting, actor-network theory, materiality, object-oriented rhetorics and approaches
• Intersections between politics and misinformation