Current Pop-Up Course

Learn about Misinformation, Conspiracy, and Polarization!

Back by popular demand, Innovation Incubator is excited to announce its pop-up course called “Lies, Damned Lies, and Politics: Confronting the Threats of Misinformation, Conspiracy, and Polarization” (CPU 1540). This course will tackle how to navigate media bias, the psychology of why people believe in misinformation and conspiracy, and the technologies and politics driving us apart.

This 3-unit course will be offered in Fall 2023. It will be taught by a team of experts from across campus: Shonn Haren, Coordinator of Instruction at the University Library; Dr. Randy Stein, an Associate Professor of Marketing; and Dr. L. Lin Ong, an Assistant Professor of International Business and Marketing.

Each section of CPU 1540 will be taught Hybrid format on Tuesdays, from 1:00pm-2:15pm, In-person meeting dates are TBD. Students will register on BroncoDirect for any one of the three sections. Students will be taught by each professor over the course of the semester, so students can learn about the subject from the different perspectives.

See below for registration details. Please email innovationinc@cpp.edu if you have any questions.

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Teaching Team

Shonn Haren,

University Library

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Shonn Haren joined the Cal Poly Pomona University Library as the Library Instruction Coordinator in 2016. He previously worked as a Reference and Instruction Librarian at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. He received a Master in Library Science in 2013 from San Jose State University and a Master of Arts in History from UC Riverside in 2010. His research interests include Fake News and Conspiracy Theories. He also enjoys cooking, pickling, calligraphy and is trying to figure out how to do woodworking while keeping all 10 of his fingers.

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Dr. Randy Stein,

International Business & Marketing

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Dr. Randy Stein is an Associate Professor of Marketing at Cal Poly Pomona. Dr. Stein researches how people’s decisions, social beliefs, and economic understanding are shaped by how they determine what is real and what’s not. His current investigations include how political leanings impact how people weigh anecdotal versus scientific evidence, how trust in institutions relates to people’s reasoning ability, and why people value products that are verified to be ineffective or inauthentic. He has also examined why people are attracted to shoddy personality tests and why pseudoscientific ideas proliferate among individuals and businesses. Prior to joining the faculty of Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Stein worked at Lieberman Research Worldwide where he executed advanced analytics on a wide range of studies for several Fortune 500 companies.

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Dr. L. Lin Ong,

International Business & Marketing

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Dr. Ong is an Assistant Professor of International Business and Marketing at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research centers on vulnerable consumers, a state in which people may be subject to harm in the modern marketplace. Another line of research looks at how social media sharing behaviors in digital domains can create both connection and privacy issues. In 2018 she took professional leave from CPP to work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in a project focused on improving women’s health in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Ong worked in the Strategy & Operations division of Deloitte Consulting, traveling and working with businesses around the world.

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