Description

The Doubt Times

The Doubt Times is a publication developed with Creative Media for Social Change as part of Desinformatie in Kaart, a research project exploring misinformation and media literacy within the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. The research approached media as an ecology: a landscape in which we move, make choices, encounter polluted areas, and influence through our own participation.

How could this research be translated into an output that encourages doubt and reflection, beyond simply telling people what is true or false?

I created a publication that translated research insights around care, responsibility, reciprocity and not-knowing into questions, visual metaphors and memes. It doesn’t explain the research, it uses simple gestures and interruptions to invite readers to question their own position within the information landscape.

The final outcome takes the form of four newspaper variations designed to circulate throughout the university. Headlines become questions, while dense and partially illegible texts evoke informational overload. Illustrations and visual interventions create moments of ambiguity, using doubt not as uncertainty to resolve, but as a way to pause, reflect and look differently at the information we consume.

The Doubt Times was produced in an edition of 800 copies.

Details:

• 2 inks offset printing
• 4 versions/ 200 copies each
• Recycled paper
• Printed by Raddraaier SSP