{"id":7015,"date":"2017-10-22T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/01\/high-noon-on-nov-1-are-you-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:06:53","slug":"high-noon-on-nov-1-are-you-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/high-noon-on-nov-1-are-you-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"High Noon on Nov. 1: &#8220;Are You Fake News?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34833\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34833\" class=\"wp-image-34833 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/john-armstrong-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"278\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 265px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 265\/278;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>John Armstrong<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman Communication Studies professors John Armstrong and Brandon Inabinet will discuss \u201cfake news\u201d and the new media environment when they speak at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Their talk, \u201cAre You Fake News? Belief, Outrage and Incivility in the New Media Environment,\u201d begins at noon at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Armstrong, an expert in broadcast communication, will look at examples of \u201cfake news\u201d incidents in early modern media to help contextualize the contemporary problem.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Inabinet, an expert in political rhetoric, will explain how the persuasive use of these new media tools propelled the rise of right-wing extremism globally and impacted the 2016 Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>This is the final lecture of the fall series. \u00a0The High Noon series will resume in the spring.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34834\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34834\" class=\"wp-image-34834 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/brandon-inabinet-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"287\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 265px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 265\/287;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Brandon Inabinet<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Upcountry History Museum\/Furman is located at 540 Buncombe Street in downtown Greenville\u2019s Heritage Green area. The complete fall schedule is available here.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s Marketing and Public Relations office at 864-294-3107 or vince.moore@furman.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Communication Studies professors John Armstrong and Brandon Inabinet will discuss \u201cfake news\u201d and the new media environment when they speak at the university\u2019s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":17511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}