Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner on Our Polluted Information Environment
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In this episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner, authors of the new book, \\u201cYou Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape.\\u201d Phillips is an assistant professor in Communications and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University, and Milner is an associate professor of Communication at the College of Charleston. In \\u201cYou Are Here,\\u201d they look at the uniquely disorienting aspects of the current online information environment and how that is exacerbated by aspects of \\u201cinternet culture\\u201d that don\\u2019t make sense from the outside. They discussed the challenges for journalists in understanding and reporting on that culture and how that can fuel information pollution, how the internet got to this point where everything is so polluted, and, of course, what QAnon has to do with it.
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