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• Gen Z! Wake Up!!

  Do you ever have that feeling you’re drowning in your social feeds? Scrolling and scrolling, unsure of what is real and what is fake? With all the content out there, it’s virtually impossible to decipher the real from the fake. A bold headline from medium.com’s “Distraction Helps Misinformation Spread. Thinking about Accurancy can reduce it,”…

  Lydia Curry

  April 26, 2023

  Media Literacy and Information in the DIgital Age

  disinformation, education, infographic, media literacy, social media

• Your Trustworthy News Guide Here!

  It’s stressful in today’s world with the plethora of information at our fingertips. Through the midst of it all and with information overload, it can feel overwhelming and like there’s nowhere else to turn. But, don’t worry because there are some great tools you can use to  verify the news organizations you consume from.  The…

  Lydia Curry

  April 23, 2023

  Media Literacy and Information in the DIgital Age

  disinformation, media, media literacy, news organizations, transparency, verification, verifying information

• A Look at Facebook and Twitter’s Misinformation Fighting

  Social media, whether good or bad, has united generations of people in communication. The generations of today all participate in some form of social media, almost daily. Facebook/Meta and Twitter are two of the largest social media companies in the world, with billions of users collectively and while these platforms have brought people together and…

  Lydia Curry

  April 16, 2023

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• AI Media Strikes Again!

  Remember that previous post about entertaining misinformation? All those AI images were funny, at first… but now, are they being used as means of propaganda? In the last few weeks, former US President Donald Trump was indicted on business fraud charges in New York. The entire internet was on fire as Trump was taken into…

  Lydia Curry

  April 9, 2023

  Media Literacy and Information in the DIgital Age

  AI, AI-images, media literacy, politics, social media, Twitter

• Media Literacy Games: Fun, fun, fun!

  Reading about a subject can get very boring, very quickly… so what better way to learn about misinformation and the tactics people use to spread it by playing a game? I played two games for this experiment: Bad News and Harmony Square. Both games have a similiar layout with prompts that guide you through the…

  Lydia Curry

  April 2, 2023

  Media Literacy and Information in the DIgital Age

  disinformation, fun, games, learning games, media, media literacy, misinformation games, misinformation tools, social media

• The Entertaining Aspect of Misinformation

  Fake news! It’s a phrase we have all heard over and over throughout the years, but what does that actually mean? To grasp a deeper understanding, first we must understand and unpack what fake news is. In modern day, it’s a phrase a former president used any time he heard something he didn’t like. Was…

  Lydia Curry

  March 26, 2023

  Media Literacy and Information in the DIgital Age

  AI, AI-images, disinformation, media, media literacy, social media, Twitter

• A 24 Hour Media Diary

  Media, content, information– it’s everywhere! And while in today’s day and age, some people may say that it is the younger generations that is consistently consuming all of this media, and surfing the internet… Americans have always consumed a lot of media. About ten years ago, Americans consumed about thirteen hours of media a day!…

  Lydia Curry

  March 19, 2023

  Media Literacy and Information in the DIgital Age, Uncategorized

  disinformation, media, media literacy, screen time