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Rumor, Trust and Civil Society: Collective Memory and Cultures of Judgment
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The authors argue that truth claims may have an uncertain provenance, but we tend to incorporate them into our belief system, act upon them, and recall them through collective memory recall through collective m...Abstract:
Contemporary societies are awash in rumor. Truth claims may have an uncertain provenance, but we tend to incorporate them into our belief system, act upon them, and recall them through collective m...read more
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Troubling Consequences of Online Political Rumoring
TL;DR: In this paper, a national telephone survey conducted immediately after the 2008 U.S. presidential election provides evidence that aggregate Internet use promotes exposure to both rumors and their rebuttals, but that the total effect on rumor beliefs is negligible.
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Deep stories, nostalgia narratives, and fake news: Storytelling in the Trump era
TL;DR: The authors argue that narrative's allusiveness helps to explain why stories produced by media elites come to feel as if they reflect people's experience and that people often share stories as a way of building collective identity.
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On Pastness: A Reconsideration of Materiality in Archaeological Object Authenticity
TL;DR: The authors argue for a modified constructivist approach to archaeological object authenticity which takes the object's materiality seriously, by defining authenticity not in the content, but in the materiality of the object itself.
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