Amid global chaos and uncertainty, Instagram offers up the world as stable, simple and good-looking. No wonder it is set to overtake Twitter as a news source.
Pipe for the Trans Mountain pipeline is unloaded in Edson, Alta., in June 2019.
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Villain, victim or hero? It all depends on who’s telling the story. When an audience is aware of how a story is framed, it can focus on the arguments, not the frame.
Talking about energy transitions could help overcome the impasse we seem to have reached on climate change.
Many young women and girls who make YouTube videos about sexual consent also examine larger cultural, legal and political contexts. Here, YouTuber Laci Green.
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As the 2020 elections near and disinformation campaigns ramp up, an expert on media literacy offers advice you can use to develop habits to exert more conscious control over your news intake.
Facebook announced Jan. 6 it will remove videos edited to mislead in ways that ‘aren’t apparent to an average person,’ and are the product of artificial intelligence or machine learning. Here, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a hearing at the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 23, 2019.
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The abilities to detect and analyze deepfake videos is of the utmost urgency. Deepfakes are a serious threat to people’s security and our democratic institutions.
News literacy involves understanding how news filters into the public domain.
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The effective teaching of news literacy needs to go beyond simple fact-checking, a journalism professor argues.
Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee educator and water activist who runs her own airboat business, is one narrative guide into the Everglades in SwampScapes.
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A filmmaker, her students and community partners create a multi-platform documentary and study guide to teach swamp literacy and care through a trip into the Everglades.
If you know how photo editing works, you might have a leg up at spotting fakes.
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People fall for fake photos regardless of whether they seem to come from Facebook or The New York Times. What actually helps?
Media critic and educator Neil Postman’s 1985 book ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ warned of the dangers when all media is entertainment, especially when people lack critical media literacy skills.
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Coach students to analyze the credibility of sources, but teaching them how genre and experiential patterns can be manipulated is also relevant.
Texas Tribune reporter Jay Root interviews New Mexico State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn along Highway 652 near the Texas-New Mexico border.
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Years before ‘fake news’ was a thing, Jowell saw media education as a crucial life skill.
YouTube has been under fire for exposing kids to harmful content. How can you keep your children safe and what are some safe viewing options?
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YouTube has been under fire for exposing kids to harmful content and recently announced new measures but these don’t go far enough. Here are some suggestions that would make a real difference.
Journalism students at Oaklea Middle School, Junction City, Oregon.
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Students in high school now will be eligible to vote during the 2020 election cycle. How can we prepare them to become informed citizens in an era of misinformation, where anyone can publish anything?
With an explosion of media outlets that don’t adhere to mainstream journalistic standards, it’s became difficult for readers to know whether to trust reports based on unnamed sources and leaks.
Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, Chair in Educational Leadership in the Innovative Pedagogical Practices in Digital Contexts - National Bank, Université Laval