Misinformation is a "wicked problem" that requires diverse expertise to address
Carolyn Ten Holter, Senior Researcher and Policy Lead at the Responsible Technology Institute, University of Oxford, highlights the need for better support for interdisciplinary research, solutions to misinformation, and improved public engagement.
Misinformation is a "wicked problem" that requires diverse expertise to address
Key points:
Complex misconceptions: Misinformation often combines multiple threads of misunderstanding
Interdisciplinary solutions: Researchers with expertise across domains are crucial to untangling these challenges
The bottom line: Interdisciplinary collaboration is key to combating misinformation effectively.
Confidence in Research: Carolyn Ten Holter — Misinformation is a "wicked problem" that requires diverse expertise to address
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Confidence in Research: Carolyn Ten Holter — Misinformation is a "wicked problem" that requires diverse expertise to address
Video transcript
"One of the challenges with misinformation is that very often you've got a lot of different threads coming together to form one not very cohesive set of misconceptions, misperceptions, misunderstandings. And that creates what you can call a wicked problem.
"And one of the answers that we see being crucial to this is to be able to have people who have lots of different understandings, interdisciplinary researchers who can draw on multiple different domains, multiple different sources of expertise, and have good connections to different areas of science — and being able to understand how to pick apart some of these challenges."
[Transcript generated by AI with human review]