Professor Barbara Allen Guest Speaker

Professor Barbara Allen, who has written an award winning book on the subject of lies in political advertising, will address Democrats Abroad on the subject:

Misinformation and Disinformation in Public Affairs

 All major news organizations put information into context. News consumers expect their brands to analyze and organize, and perhaps to slant information to fit their values or ideologies. When does slant move from our expectations about information framing with omissions and emphasis edging into misinformation? When does our ideological bias move us to accept disinformation as an alternative “fact”? When does the world of alt facts lead to contesting views of reality that endanger democracy?

Barbara Allen

Barbara Allen is James Woodward Strong Professor of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science and former chair of the Department of Political Science and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Carleton College, Northfield, MN. She was named the first Senior Research Fellow of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in 2012, a position she continues to hold at Indiana University. She also teaches as a Visiting Professor at the University of Luxembourg. Professor Allen has served as a contributing editor to the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University, and has written extensively on the political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Alexis de Tocqueville. Her book, Harmonizing Earth with Heaven: Tocqueville on Covenant & the Democratic Revolution examines the covenant idea in politics and its influence on American federalism. She has published co-authored work on institutional analysis with Vincent Ostrom and edited two volumes of Ostrom’s previously unpublished essays. Professor Allen has been joined by her students in a multi-method, twelve-year study of these topics, a project for which she was awarded the American Political Science Association Rowman and Littlefield Innovations in Teaching Award in 2005. With co-author Daniel Stevens she has recently published a book on this research, Truth in Advertising? Verbal, Visual, and Aural Lies in Political Advertising and How They Effect the Electorate, which won the 2019 Richard E. Neustadt Book Award. She has received fellowships for various projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Bush Foundation, and the Earhart Foundation. In addition to studies of political theory and political communication, she has conducted community-based participatory research on topics of concern to Deaf Americans. She directed the award-winning feature length documentary, Signing On: Stories of Deaf Breast Cancer Survivors, their Families and Community. The film may seen on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/328891757. In 2020, Allen completed work on a feature documentary, Actual World, Possible Future: The Lives and Work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom. The film documents Noble Laureate Elinor Ostrom’s research showing how ordinary people can tackle global challenges like climate change. Allen won a Telly Award for directing the film, which was broadcast on PBS affiliate WTIU, and is available at https://www.pbs.org/video/actual-world-possible-future-09rkab/

 

WHEN

Tuesday, April 09, 2024 at 07:00 PM Brussels Time

WHERE

Restaurant QoSQo - Ville
15 Place d'Armes
Luxembourg 1136
Luxembourg
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CONTACT

Daniel George Good

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