Bernhard Poerksen

Bernhard Poerksen is a professor of media studies at the University of Tübingen. His most recent book publication is Digital Fever: Taming the Big Business of Disinformation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
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The Doctor and His Guru

Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant talks with German media scholar Bernhard Poerksen about the dangers of nationalism in times of a pandemic, and the eradication of smallpox as a lesson in global cooperation.

Interview with Larry Brilliant by Bernhard Poerksen

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