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Focus Tag: Media and Information Literacy
Who’s ‘mainly’ responsible for curbing disinformation? | Poynter
by Cristina Tardáguila, Daniel Funke and Susan Benkelman
January 24, 2020
Who should be responsible for curbing the spread of disinformation? We might start by looking at who is responsible for…
Tumblr rolling out an internet literacy initiative to help combat misinformation | The Verge
by Julia Alexander
January 6, 2020
With the 2020 election coming up and growing concerns about bad actors using social media sites to spread misinformation, Tumblr…
2019 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary | Supreme Court of the United States
by Chief Justice John Roberts
January 2, 2020
In the winter of 1788, New York newspapers reported accounts that medical students were robbing graves so they could practice…
Misinformation vs. media studies: on teaching to fish | Journalism.co.uk
by Julian McDougall
December 23, 2019
In the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University, we recently published recommendations from our research into the…
Images That Generate Clicks Among Both Liberals and Conservatives | Center for Media Engagement
by Caroline Murrary & Natalie Jomini Stroud
December 19, 2019
The Center for Media Engagement partnered with ProPublica to determine if news story headlines and images can be crafted in…
Twitter is bringing back labels for US election candidates | The Verge
by Jay Peters
December 12, 2019
For the 2018 midterm elections, Twitter introduced labels that appeared on US election candidates’ profiles and tweets in order to…
Comment threads can influence climate change attitudes by altering perceived consensus | PsyPost
by Eric W. Dolan
December 9, 2019
The comment sections of blogs can influence perceptions of consensus, which can in turn influence beliefs about climate change, according…
The Fact-Check Industry | Columbia Journalism Review
by Emily Bell
December 9, 2019
If the presidential election of 2016 revealed one thing more surprising to the mainstream press than the popularity of Donald…
Cranky Uncle game takes on climate crisis denial and fake news | The Guardian
by Jessica Murray
December 9, 2019
A new game promises to act as a “vaccination” against climate crisis denial and fake news by teaching users about…