{"id":729,"date":"2024-10-02T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/?p=729"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T16:20:34","slug":"how-are-controversies-manufactured-leah-ceccarelli-interviewed-by-society-technology-at-uw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/2024\/10\/02\/how-are-controversies-manufactured-leah-ceccarelli-interviewed-by-society-technology-at-uw\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow are controversies manufactured?\u201d Leah Ceccarelli interviewed by Society + Technology at UW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) Director Leah Ceccarelli was featured in the first episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/societytech\/wordpress\/conversations\/\">Conversations with Society + Technology<\/a><\/em>, an interview series about emerging technologies and their societal impact. The series features experts from the affiliate network of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu\/\"> new Society + Technology program at UW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the interview, conducted by Monika Sengul-Jones, Ceccarelli discusses the STSS program, her research on rhetoric and science, and what to make of &#8220;manufactured controversies&#8221; about science at a historical moment typified by concerns about the proliferation of &#8220;fake news,&#8221; propaganda, and misinformation using online digital technologies.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#e8e3d3\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;You can\u2019t just dismiss the fraudsters, or those who believe the fraudsters, as fools. That just feeds their anti-elitist populism that\u2019s become such a central part of these disinformation campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ignoring the false claims doesn\u2019t work either, right? Because it just cedes the ground to the liars. But neither can you debate the deceivers on their own terms, because that just makes it seem like there really is a dispute over the facts. You\u2019re really in this double bind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How does the moral tradition of rhetoric help us respond to deception?<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/societytech\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/26\/controversies-stss-episode-1\/\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#85754d\">Go to the Interview<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS) Director Leah Ceccarelli was featured in the first episode of Conversations with Society + Technology, an interview series about emerging technologies and their societal impact. The series features experts from the affiliate network of the new Society + Technology program at UW. In the interview, conducted by Monika Sengul-Jones, Ceccarelli discusses the STSS program, her research on rhetoric and science, and what to make of &#8220;manufactured controversies&#8221; about science at a historical moment typified&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/2024\/10\/02\/how-are-controversies-manufactured-leah-ceccarelli-interviewed-by-society-technology-at-uw\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cHow are controversies manufactured?\u201d Leah Ceccarelli interviewed by Society + Technology at UW<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-stss-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/stsst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}