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My intro course has been working all semester on the problem of disinformation in our media environments. Taking an ecological approach, we studied the business of media, platform histories, modes

So it occurs to me I’ve been doing a lot of media literacy/watching threads the past few days and maybe it’s worth pulling together into a mothership.Also so I don’t

I’ve had three different conversations today about our massive journalism literacy problem in the U.S., including a media interview that ended up going a lot of directions because it’s such

I do not get this media strategy for POTUS. Two weeks out, down in polls and running out of time, he’s talking to an audience that is indistinguishable from his

In my "Black Mirror & The Digital Self” class, we are watching “Smithereen” right now. I’ve been chewing on the ending, which showed a society being exposed to a news

This feels like a good time to re-up my most shared thing ever. There is a lot higher ed can learn from to survive this moment and come out stronger.

I used to be much more optimistic about the promise of social networks than I am now (those who knew me in my PhD days would say as much). There

If we are ever going to level-up on media literacy, what the Trump administration and Fox News did to promote hydroxychloroquine should be a wakeup call. So it's worth thumping

“The models were all wrong.”I have been seeing this argument a lot online, sometimes on Twitter but more often on Facebook, as a claim meant to support the idea we

The people protesting closures are hacking the journalistic news value of covering what is novel or contrary over what is normalized/accepted. The effect is amplifying a view the vast majority

For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening, or think “it’s the internet!” or “people don’t pay to subscribe,” there’s a lot more going on. Though

This week saw a one-two punch to local news: the GannettHouse merger and news that McClatchy is in serious financial trouble. @Sulliview captures the worry quite well here (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-death-knell-for-local-news