disinformation, the loss of reality, & political division

 GREATEST HITS (PER GEMINI)

1) McKain:1st multi-campus disinfo-fighting platform (Manhattan Project #1 in 2007 w/ a Fortune 500 & Ohio State).

2 Unprecedented bipartisan tech and disinformation partnerships (after Dr. McKain “crossed the filter bubble”).

3) Tested under wartime conditions during Minneapolis unrest/COVID “infodemic”(2020-21):

4) Civil civic 3rd- rail policy forums (medical science → trauma) for bipartisan elected officials, bridged MAGA/Evangelical and BIPOC/Inner-City narrative streams via post-fact journalism networks, raised $27K for Little Earth Native HUD Community mutual aid.

4) Runner-up, NPR Next Team Challenge.

5) Publications: J. of American Culture, Intima, & Theology & Pop Culture.

6) Exhibitions: Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea, juried solo show).

• Developed diagnostic taxonomy for identifying narrative volatility in all disinformation cases as well as in medical storytelling (Intima, Missouri Review) and curated international exhibitions (Contaminated, Sick Girl, All Bullets Shatter) to stress-test cross-cultural civic forums against active medical and scientific misinformation.
• Dr. McKain used high-entropy Daily Show datasets (in 2005) to predict the collapse of traditional journalism gatekeeping and 2026’s "post-truth" crisis (Journal of American Culture) and engineered an "Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness" framework via Colbert (The Joke is On Us).
• With the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, the IDH operationalized art/museum infrastructures (CICA South Korea, NE Sculpture Gallery) to negotiate high-stakes scientific/public health controversies with partners/Minneapolis’ citizens (presented at Rhetoric Society of America; Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Symposium)