What can be done? Digital Media Policy Options for Europe (2019) 5. News Media Policy Context Media policy covers a wide range of different issues and concerns, including public-interest objectives tied to democratic, social, and cultural needs, and is central to creating and maintaining an enabling environment for independent professional journalism, especially when it comes to funding investment in news production.
Is This Story Share-Worthy? Flowchart GRADE LEVEL: Middle and high school TIME: Less than 30 minutes MATERIALS: Is This Story Share-Worthy? flowchart, either printed on large paper or displayed digitally (download); Is This Story Share-Worthy? worksheet (download); selections from Teacher Resource – Examples for Evaluating Online News (download); internet access Review the Is This Story Share-Worthy? Were TikTok users and K-pop fans really behind the poor turnout at Trump's Tulsa rally? - ABC News US President Donald Trump's first campaign rally since the coronavirus pandemic received more than 1 million ticket requests. So when just over 6,000 people showed up to the event on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, many were left wondering if the poor turnout had something to do with a viral TikTok video. In the week leading up to the rally — which was originally (and controversially) scheduled for Friday, June 19 — TikTok users jumped on a trend that involved reserving tickets without having any intention of attending. How did the TikTok trend start?
PBS: Do You Live in a News Bubble? By Brooke Shelby Biggs Whether you think of her as a visionary or a kook, Marion Stokes was far ahead of her time in addressing a problem in American media that continues to this day: a lack of diversity among the gatekeepers of traditional media. When she confronted white male panelists on the Philadelphia local public affairs program Input about the ways in which they systematically kept the voices of women and people of color out of the conversation and away from the levers of control, she might well have been addressing the media of 2020. Indeed, in June, the executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer stepped down when the lack of diversity in his newsroom resulted in an offensive headline making print during the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests. In Pittsburgh, a black reporter was pulled off the protest beat by his editors; the New York Times’ opinion page editor resigned under fire; Bon Appétit’s editor resigned after a racially flippant tweet.
Isn't it time to stop Wikipedia shaming? - NeverEndingSearch I am currently working on a research project with partners from the University of Florida and OCLC. Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. I thought I’d share some of our preliminary findings. This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.
You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You? danah boyd (2018) The below original text was the basis for Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd’s March 2018 SXSW Edu keynote,“What Hath We Wrought?” — Ed. Growing up, I took certain truths to be self evident. Democracy is good. War is bad. Infographic: Beyond Fake News - 10 Types of Misleading News - nine Languages The work needed to effectively filter information in our media-saturated environment takes time and skill. A study showed that the more content we consume, the more our ability to make decisions about its veracity becomes impaired. With 80% of Europeans now regularly going online, it is vital for the sustainable and effective functioning of democracy for citizens to be able to curate their media diets with a healthy critical eye.
How To Spot Fake News - IFLA in the post-truth society Skip to main content You are here: Home » Activities and Groups » Information Society » News » How To Spot Fake News - IFLA in the post-truth society Search form 1 February 2017 How To Spot Fake News - IFLA in the post-truth society OWL Purdue: Evaluating Sources This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue University. When printing this page, you must include the entire legal notice. Copyright ©1995-2018 by The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, reproduced, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission. Why we need a new approach to teaching digital literacy - kappanonline.org To assess the credibility of the information they find online, students shouldn’t start with a close reading of the given website. Rather, they should turn to the power of the web to determine its trustworthiness. After the 2016 election, the nation’s most prominent news organizations launched efforts to help Americans navigate the deluge of information — much of it false or misleading — that floods their phones, tablets, and laptops. “Here’s how to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed,” blared a CNN headline (Willingham, 2016). The Washington Post provided “the fact checker’s guide for detecting fake news” (Kessler, 2016), and the Huffington Post instructed readers on “how to recognize a fake news story” (Robins-Early, 2016). And the response went well beyond the publication of how-to guides.
How technology disrupted the truth (2016) One Monday morning last September, Britain woke to a depraved news story. The prime minister, David Cameron, had committed an “obscene act with a dead pig’s head”, according to the Daily Mail. “A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event, involving a dead pig,” the paper reported. Piers Gaveston is the name of a riotous Oxford university dining society; the authors of the story claimed their source was an MP, who said he had seen photographic evidence: “His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal.”