Professional journalists, educators and students discuss the definition of news literacy, why it's important to strengthen our democracy, and how it can be beneficial as an educational concept.
With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart.
Lesson by Damon Brown, animation by Augenblick Studios.
Ryan Holiday, the author of, "Trust Me, I'm Lying," shares a bit about how he has manipulated media to get bogus, anonymous stories to the front-page of news media outlets. He wonders if many of our news stories can even be trusted because the system by which news outlets pick up their stories is flawed. In fact, the news may not really be the news at all.
We interviewed Ryan Holiday to find out more. The epiphany? If you're not paying for a product online, then you ARE the product.
By the end of this talk, there will be 864 more hours of video on YouTube and 2.5 million more photos on Facebook and Instagram. So how do we sort through the deluge? At the TEDSalon in London, Markham Nolan shares the investigative techniques he and his team use to verify information in real-time, to let you know if that Statue of Liberty image has been doctored or if that video leaked from Syria is legitimate.
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First thing’s first: what is media literacy? In our first episode, Jay breaks this question down and explains how we’re going to use it to explore our media saturated world. *** Resources & References: U.S. Adults Consume an Entire Hour More of Media Per Day Than They Did Just Last Year http://www.adweek.com/tv-video/us-adu... Landmark Report: U.S. Teens Use an Average of Nine Hours of Media Per Day, Tweens Use Six Hours https://www.commonsensemedia.org/abou... NAMLE: Media Literacy Defined https://namle.net/publications/media-... *** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
In order to understand the history of media literacy we have to go all the way back to straight up literacy. In the first half of our look at the history of media literacy, Jay takes us all the way back to Ancient Greece and forward through the printing press, newspapers, and Yellow Journalism. *** Resources & References: The Impact of the Printing Press http://courses.educ.ubc.ca/etec540/Se... Grandparents of Media Literacy https://www.grandparentsofmedialitera... Maine Explosion Caused by Bomb or Torpedo? https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i... *** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
Jay continues our journey through the history of media literacy with the arrival of movies, television, and the other screens that now permeate our lives – along with some of the different approaches to media literacy that these inventions brought with them. *** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
You are constantly surrounded by media, so the question is: how does your brain handle all of that? The unfortunate answer is that our brains have a lot of processes that not super helpful for media literacy, but hopefully with a little self-awareness, we can work around that. *** Resources: How americans get their news: http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/... Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/... *** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse