Name: Understanding post-truth GIS
Start: 2026-05-21T14:30:00-0700
End: 2026-05-21T15:00:00-0700

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm PDT

Post-truth is a slippery synthesis of knowledge claims, science, activism, politics and media.; it represents an uncomfortable shift in how our society produces and validates geographic reality. This presentation introduces a multidisciplinary framework based on identity, meaning, transfer and appropriation. The framework is grounded in GIScience and illustrated with cases of post-truth GIS opportunity and disruption in the Pacific Northwest related to shoreline management, best available science, citizen activism and institutional collaboration. Finally, we propose a stance for building post-truth resilient GIS shifting from defensive accuracy to proactive understanding through transparency, epistemic scaffolding, and methodological provenance, coupled with the cultivation of distributed networks for knowledge transfer.

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Gene Martin

GIS consultant, Independent

Gene is a GIS solutions expert and educator with over 20 years of experience in environmental modeling, sustainability planning, and geospatial education. A former instructor for the University of Washington’s certificate program and UWSP department of geography , Gene’s work... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
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