March 10, 2020: Alex Juhasz, "My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the fact of Fake News"
This interactive event—somewhere between a scholarly talk, a poetry reading, some video viewing, and some doing—will serve as an invitation and invocation for your participation, with others, in an ongoing experiment in knowing and working with the internet differently. As Dr. Alexandra Juhasz will explain, and participants will do, Fake News Poetry Workshops are one way to counter the internet's dominant and dominating modes and values, and to together fight the corrupt ways of being and knowing that use digital media to create, fuel, and weaponize fake news and the people, machines, and corporations that make it. So, easy is not one of the project’s beliefs or operating structures, nor will if be for this event. This is also true of fast, anonymous, viral, angry, profit-driven, memetic, and indexical. Rather the event and its sister workshops run on complexity, time, place, art, curiosity, collaboration, and conversation. We will gather together in Buffalo to use analog structures (about digital things and ways) to generate, hold, and share some DH/Poetics/Media/Gender “art answers to fake questions.”
Co-sponsored by DSSN
10:00-11:30, 112 Center for the Arts