The Politics of Misinformation: What to Do When People Believe Questionable Political Claims?
by Student Life
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This event is the third in the Mens et Manus America series this semester. The Mens et Manus American initiative, sponsored by the Sloan School and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, addresses social, political, and economic challenges in the United States.
Please note that lunch will be served starting at 11:30 and our program will begin at noon.
Where
E51-345
50 Memorial Drive E52-101, Cambridge, MA 02142, United States
Speakers
Ezra Zuckerman Sivan
Deputy Dean and the Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
MIT Sloan School of Management
Ezra Zuckerman Sivan is Deputy Dean and the Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. He is also cofounder of MIT Sloan's PhD Program in Economic Sociology. As Deputy Dean, he has responsibility for all of SloanÔÇÖs faculty, approximately 200 (hiring, promotion and tenure, performance evaluation, and compensation), and half a dozen research centers based in Sloan.
Zuckerman is an economic sociologist whose research focuses on showing how an understanding of fundamental social processes is important for shedding light on key issues in business and management, as well as how an appreciation for the dynamics of business and management inform our understanding of fundamental social processes. He is perhaps best known for demonstrating the importance of categorical structures in shaping valuation in various markets.
Zuckerman's master's and executive level teaching centers on competitive and technology strategy, and he teaches two doctoral courses, "Sociology of Strategy" and "Identity and Action."
Zuckerman holds a BA in political science from Columbia University as well as an MA and a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.
Adam Berinsky
Professor of Political Science and Director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL)
MIT
Adam Berinsky is a Professor of Political Science at MIT and serves as the director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL). Berinsky received his PhD. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He is the author of "In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq" (University of Chicago Press, 2009). He is also the author of "Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America" (Princeton University Press, 2004) and has published articles in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. He is currently the co-editor of the Chicago Studies in American Politics book series at the University of Chicago Press. He is also the recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Agustin Rayo
Associate Dean and Professor of Philosophy
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Agustín Rayo has served as Associate Dean of the School since February 2016, with a portfolio that includes oversight of the School's mission in undergraduate education and diversity efforts.
A Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Rayo's research lies at the intersection of the philosophy of logic and the philosophy of language. He has done work on understanding the relationship between our language and the world it represents, on clarifying certain connections between logic and mathematics, and on investigating the limits of communicable thought.
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