Category: Media Literacy and Information in the DIgital Age
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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,”…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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