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Beyond Edutainment: Reclaiming Archaeology in a Clickbait World
[/vc_column_text][mk_divider][vc_single_image image=”107246″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://asor-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0EzDbZW6TwmOUZqR3Pstlw#/registration”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_wp_text]Friends of 麻豆直播 present the next webinar of the 2025-2026 season on January 7, 2026, at 7:00 pm EST, presented by Amanda Hope Haley. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will be sent a recording link in the days following the webinar.
We all remember a time when the History Channel was about history, documentaries bored us with facts and black-and-white footage, and everyone knew Indiana Jones, Daniel Jackson, and River Song were swashbuckling adventurers (not serious scientists). When did the lines between fiction and fact blur? Did it start when thorough public history education was reduced to merely one year during middle school, when the Socratic method gave way to teaching-to-the-test? Although many of us are still fascinated by our ancestors and the empires they built and destroyed, the field of archaeology is shrinking when we need more access to the lessons of the past, not less.
The good news is that people are interested in ancient history. The increasing popularity of network, streaming, and web-based series that claim to 鈥渆xplore鈥� ancient sites, texts, and legends prove that the work of real archaeologists is needed and wanted. The bad news is that much of their work is not accessible and may not be comprehensible for the average reader. So in that void鈥攚here more information is desired than is delivered鈥攕ensationalism and fiction have taken hold. Worse, those fictions are proliferated by social media which reward clicks (and therefore ad revenue) instead of facts.
Both researchers and readers must understand the problem before us: troll farms are creating and multiplying fake content that crowd out real news, profit-trained algorithms are pushing what we learn, and AI is making falsehood harder to detect.
Even if archaeologists were well funded and better resourced, they could not compete with the truly fake news pushed by entertainment companies and 鈥渁dventurers,鈥� whom we might call pseudoarchaeologists. Social media鈥檚 lack of conscience and sensationalists鈥� focus on fame and wealth make the fight with slow science and thoughtful debate an unfair one. Through publications such as 麻豆直播鈥檚 and BAS鈥檚 Biblical Archaeology Review, scholars have shared their findings with the public in less-technical language for many years. However, as reading rates drop among students and adults, authors are now competing with filmmakers for eyeballs, hearts, and minds. Increases in forgeries and thefts make us all wonder what is real.
The quest to recover our ancient history is not yet lost to Skynet. But it is going to take all of us鈥攖he real archaeologists in the field and the curious readers behind their screens鈥攖o reinvigorate real exploration.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]
Amanda Hope Haley has a bachelor of arts in Religious Studies from Rhodes College and a master of theological studies in Hebrew Scripture and Interpretation from Harvard University. She entered the publishing industry in 2005, first contributing to The Voice Bible as a translator, commentary writer, and editor. She then began working with popular nonfiction titles as a content editor, theological reviewer, and ghostwriter before her first book was published by Thomas Nelson in 2014. Amanda’s most recent book, Stones Still Speak: How Biblical Archaeology Illuminates the Stories You Thought You Knew, was released by Revell in September and encourages readers to distinguish between popular traditions and historical facts. Between writing manuscripts, she podcasts as The Red-Haired Archaeologist庐 and introduces sound archaeological insights to readers overwhelmed and misdirected by cinematic or culturally inherited images of the ancient world.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]
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