Attention Economics and Fake News
The author presented the following lecture at the recent the annual celebration of The University of Copenhagen. World Economic Forum recently declared misinformation and digital wildfires as some of the...
Science and Journalism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Some years ago, when I was about to receive the Elite Research Prize from The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, my son, Milton, 8 years old back, then asked me: ”Dad, I have to ask you...
The Sharing of Nude Photos is Status Economics on Steroids
Monday 28 November 2016 Nude photos have become a valuable commodity in the digital marketplace with both sellers and buyers. But in the information age it would indeed be calamitous if we haul social...
Time for Something New and Completely Different? Political Social Responsibility
Political social responsibility, as a supplement to corporate social responsibility and scientific social responsibility, is exactly what is needed in light of Brexit and the recent...
Setting the Record Straight on Post-factual Democracy
BuzzFeed just published a piece demonstrating that post-factual tendencies in politics are alarming on the rise on hyperpartisan Facebook pages. Indeed, everybody is talking about post-truth democracy these...
The Brute Force of Information
On August 2, 2016 a report was released on the proliferation of digital misinformation and the challenges such information presents to global society and security. The report was released by the Center for...
How Circulating Public Knowledge Creates Major Trouble for Companies
What happens when people start talking about your company on Facebook.
