Media, Monsters, and Misinformation (Highlights)

Dani Even if two people or more than two people are witnessing the same thing, their experiences and, um, sort of sensory exposure to that thing will be different. Cassondra Right? Because each individual has their own confirmation bias. We all have our own individual bias that we have these, so, such strong opinions. Our selective perception on certain, like, uh, social views and political views. Depending on your age, actually, most people who get their information from media and are more likely to share false news on the media are actually older than 65. The also interesting thing about social media and the spread of all this misinformation and stuff is that we can also solve this problem, uh, with the media. Dani This really goes back to just the selective perception in a way, because it's how the information is presented to us and how we, as individual human beings, receive that information and how we retain it. Cassondra I'm always on Instagram 'cause I wanna see everybody's art. Does social media increase exposure to diverse viewpoints, or does it shuffle people into like-minded camps? People who don't care about debunking information, have no idea how to research their own information, are just gonna keep going through the same old social media platforms over and over again. Dani As we get older, we almost become creatures of habit. So even though—oh yeah, yeah—so like even though the method of presenting this information on television, let's say, has evolved over time, people might not necessarily be able to evolve with it. Older people are more sure of themselves, so they're more confident in their ability to sort of retain and transcribe this information, where someone who's younger is like, "Wait, this doesn't sound right."