Tag: photographs
As spiritualism’s popularity grows, photographer Shannon Taggart takes viewers inside the...
Beth Saunders, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The word séance conjures images of darkened rooms, entranced mediums, strange occurrences...
Out-of-context photos are a powerful low-tech form of misinformation
Lisa Fazio, Vanderbilt University
When you think of visual misinformation, maybe you think of deepfakes – videos that appear real but have actually been created...
Identifying a fake picture online is harder than you might think
Mona Kasra, University of Virginia
It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did,...
The real problem with posting about your kids online
Priya C. Kumar, University of Maryland
In a recent essay published in The Washington Post, a mother explained her decision to continue writing essays and...
When the media cover mass shootings, would depicting the carnage make...
Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon
Since 20 children were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, we’ve seen public calls for...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
