Lecture to Northwestern London seminar series. It looks at the change in the role of news media in democracy, how the news industry has changed to a more networked system with new publishers and platforms becoming more influential. It examines the rise of fake news and the crisis of trust in news media and how politicians have responded.
BBC's shoddy analysis about fake news spread in India
PS: Fake news is being spread, there is NO doubt about that.
But there is no easy way to arrive at the outlandish conclusions they have arrived at. Take a look :-) They start off with some "data analysis" and call it qualitative research.
This slideshow was presented as part of the Johnson County Community College Retirees Association (JCCCRA) session on how to spot fake news. Several steps were outlined to verify the accuracy of everything from email chain letters to websites to Facebook postings. Included in the session was information on known fake news sites, fact checking sites and key characteristics of bogusness. The session was offered on May 15, 2017 on the JCCC campus.
The Covid19 - Fighting Fake News Project deals with jointly fighting the menace of fake news related to Covid19 and how we, using WhatsApp as a medium, intend to propagate facts and real information to our audiences.
Our aim is to enable general public to scrutinize every news that they come across as we believe that misinformation/fake news is a bigger pandemic than Covid19.
Lecture to Northwestern London seminar series. It looks at the change in the role of news media in democracy, how the news industry has changed to a more networked system with new publishers and platforms becoming more influential. It examines the rise of fake news and the crisis of trust in news media and how politicians have responded.
BBC's shoddy analysis about fake news spread in India
PS: Fake news is being spread, there is NO doubt about that.
But there is no easy way to arrive at the outlandish conclusions they have arrived at. Take a look :-) They start off with some "data analysis" and call it qualitative research.
This slideshow was presented as part of the Johnson County Community College Retirees Association (JCCCRA) session on how to spot fake news. Several steps were outlined to verify the accuracy of everything from email chain letters to websites to Facebook postings. Included in the session was information on known fake news sites, fact checking sites and key characteristics of bogusness. The session was offered on May 15, 2017 on the JCCC campus.
The Covid19 - Fighting Fake News Project deals with jointly fighting the menace of fake news related to Covid19 and how we, using WhatsApp as a medium, intend to propagate facts and real information to our audiences.
Our aim is to enable general public to scrutinize every news that they come across as we believe that misinformation/fake news is a bigger pandemic than Covid19.
In this lecture, I introduce several common cognitive biases and logical fallacies, explain how to identify fake news, and suggest steps that can be taken to enhance one's ability to be a smart consumer of news.
How to Spot Fake News: Be a Smarter Surfer
Presented by Liz Ryan and Erin Robinson
Derry Public Library
Learn how to spot fake news and pick up strategies on cross referencing, fact checking and avoiding propaganda!
Presentation to European Parliament on fake news, changes in our media environment, and what can be done to ensure news and media serve our democracies, with links to underlying independent, evidence-based research.
Talk on fake news as digital culture given at the Institute for Policy Research symposium on Politics, Fake News and the Post-Truth Era, University of Bath, 14 September 2017.
More about the talk here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/09/23/fake-news-in-digital-culture-at-2017-institute-for-policy-research-symposium/
More about the event here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/events/politics-fake-news-and-the-post-truth-era/
Handout: Resources for Managing Misinformation (2021)Damian Radcliffe
Handout for attendees at the pre-departure orientation for Fulbright scholars and ETAs (2021-22). You can view the presentation at: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21505.17762
How to Think in the Information Age: Finding Facts in a Post-Truth WorldSt. Petersburg College
With an ever-increasing daily torrent of information raining on people from almost every perceivable angle, it is impossible to process it all and, more importantly, to “separate the wheat from the chaff.” It is vital for everyone to be able to verify the accuracy and authority of information found on the Web while being able to detect bad data and lies to achieve the final goal of making intelligent decisions. As 21st Century library and information professionals, it is essential that we know how to think in the Information Age and to be able to pass this skill on to our users. In this webinar:
~ discover what misinformation is and explore ways to combat it.
~ learn to recognize misleading news, statistics, graphs, infographics, and more.
~ understand basic fallacies and how to detect bias.
~ appreciate how fast information spreads on social media and gather tools to help you become a stronger digital citizen.
~ utilize the scientific method to become a critical thinker in the Information Age.
Journalism, like any other niche, has also been influenced by the Digital Media. The usage of digital technologies to research, produce and deliver (or make accessible) news and information is termed as Digital Journalism in simple.
This session sheds an average light on all the aspects of digital jounalism in today's digital context ranging from the theories to the legal issues so concerned.
Detailed Research on Fake News: Opportunities, Challenges and MethodsMilap Bhanderi
This paper is submitted at Dalhousie University for Technology Innovation course as a deliverable. This paper focuses on the opportunities, challenges and methods for Fake news.
Truth, Trust and Technology: an agenda for the countering misinformationPOLIS LSE
A lecture setting out the problems being addressed the LSE Truth Trust and Technology Commission of 2018. It sets out the problem, the possible solutions in a conceptual framework.
This is a webinar organised by the Nigerian Library Association, Delta State Chapter, in collaboration with Digital Citizens.
The aim of the webinar is to equip library and information professionals with necessary technologies and strategies needed to play key roles in the dissemination of correct information, and in the information literacy of citizens, in this era of fake news and misinformation.
Teaching the Election: Focus on Propaganda Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs offers a keynote address to the Teaching the Election Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on September 26, 2020. Learn more: https://mediaeducationlab.com/teaching-about-2020-elections-virtual-conference
Journalism: Understanding Human Interest StoriesDamian Radcliffe
Slides from J462 Reporting II class on 7th October 2015 exploring different types of human interest stories across a range of different media platforms.
Alphabet is a collection of companies w/c Google as the largest and its parent company. It focuses on prospering businesses through strong leadership. It offer opportunites by having a wide range of portfolios that hold several industries.
I was recently asked to put together a presentation on the fake news phenomenon for discussions with leading journalists and media institutions in a developing country, with extremely poor media literacy but strong growth around social media use, on how to both identify misleading content and also stem its flow, reach and influence.
Download the full presentation as a PowerPoint (with embedded videos) or as an Apple Keynote file, here - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxbk4wYolphwcVk4bV85aEFtYXc
In this lecture, I introduce several common cognitive biases and logical fallacies, explain how to identify fake news, and suggest steps that can be taken to enhance one's ability to be a smart consumer of news.
How to Spot Fake News: Be a Smarter Surfer
Presented by Liz Ryan and Erin Robinson
Derry Public Library
Learn how to spot fake news and pick up strategies on cross referencing, fact checking and avoiding propaganda!
Presentation to European Parliament on fake news, changes in our media environment, and what can be done to ensure news and media serve our democracies, with links to underlying independent, evidence-based research.
Talk on fake news as digital culture given at the Institute for Policy Research symposium on Politics, Fake News and the Post-Truth Era, University of Bath, 14 September 2017.
More about the talk here: http://lilianabounegru.org/2017/09/23/fake-news-in-digital-culture-at-2017-institute-for-policy-research-symposium/
More about the event here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/events/politics-fake-news-and-the-post-truth-era/
Handout: Resources for Managing Misinformation (2021)Damian Radcliffe
Handout for attendees at the pre-departure orientation for Fulbright scholars and ETAs (2021-22). You can view the presentation at: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21505.17762
How to Think in the Information Age: Finding Facts in a Post-Truth WorldSt. Petersburg College
With an ever-increasing daily torrent of information raining on people from almost every perceivable angle, it is impossible to process it all and, more importantly, to “separate the wheat from the chaff.” It is vital for everyone to be able to verify the accuracy and authority of information found on the Web while being able to detect bad data and lies to achieve the final goal of making intelligent decisions. As 21st Century library and information professionals, it is essential that we know how to think in the Information Age and to be able to pass this skill on to our users. In this webinar:
~ discover what misinformation is and explore ways to combat it.
~ learn to recognize misleading news, statistics, graphs, infographics, and more.
~ understand basic fallacies and how to detect bias.
~ appreciate how fast information spreads on social media and gather tools to help you become a stronger digital citizen.
~ utilize the scientific method to become a critical thinker in the Information Age.
Journalism, like any other niche, has also been influenced by the Digital Media. The usage of digital technologies to research, produce and deliver (or make accessible) news and information is termed as Digital Journalism in simple.
This session sheds an average light on all the aspects of digital jounalism in today's digital context ranging from the theories to the legal issues so concerned.
Detailed Research on Fake News: Opportunities, Challenges and MethodsMilap Bhanderi
This paper is submitted at Dalhousie University for Technology Innovation course as a deliverable. This paper focuses on the opportunities, challenges and methods for Fake news.
Truth, Trust and Technology: an agenda for the countering misinformationPOLIS LSE
A lecture setting out the problems being addressed the LSE Truth Trust and Technology Commission of 2018. It sets out the problem, the possible solutions in a conceptual framework.
This is a webinar organised by the Nigerian Library Association, Delta State Chapter, in collaboration with Digital Citizens.
The aim of the webinar is to equip library and information professionals with necessary technologies and strategies needed to play key roles in the dissemination of correct information, and in the information literacy of citizens, in this era of fake news and misinformation.
Teaching the Election: Focus on Propaganda Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs offers a keynote address to the Teaching the Election Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison on September 26, 2020. Learn more: https://mediaeducationlab.com/teaching-about-2020-elections-virtual-conference
Journalism: Understanding Human Interest StoriesDamian Radcliffe
Slides from J462 Reporting II class on 7th October 2015 exploring different types of human interest stories across a range of different media platforms.
Alphabet is a collection of companies w/c Google as the largest and its parent company. It focuses on prospering businesses through strong leadership. It offer opportunites by having a wide range of portfolios that hold several industries.
I was recently asked to put together a presentation on the fake news phenomenon for discussions with leading journalists and media institutions in a developing country, with extremely poor media literacy but strong growth around social media use, on how to both identify misleading content and also stem its flow, reach and influence.
Download the full presentation as a PowerPoint (with embedded videos) or as an Apple Keynote file, here - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxbk4wYolphwcVk4bV85aEFtYXc
What makes fake news fake? As a society, we have been bombarded with the idea that the news we consume every day is fabricated, but the truth is far more complicated than that. Join Indiana University East librarian KT Lowe as she discusses the identifiable traits of fake news, offers tips on how to tackle fake news claims and demonstrates what makes real news real.
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The Birla Academy of Art & Culture was established in 1967 with the principal objective of fostering the growth of art and culture with emphasis on visual and performing arts...
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Here is a case study focuses on providing necessary information about sourcing wagon wheels in China. To get more information on sourcing wagon wheels visit: http://www.dragonsourcing.com/china-sourcing-company/
Educational Strategies for the Prevention of Violent ExtremismRenee Hobbs
Professor Renee Hobbs identifies five instructional strategies for addressing the prevention of violent extremism based on the practice of digital and media literacy education.
Media Education in the Era of Algorithmic Personalization: Facing Polarizati...Renee Hobbs
Keynote address at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND TRAINNING
ON DIGITAL AND MEDIA EDUCATION
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, October 25-28, 2023
Professor Renee Hobbs explores how disparities in access to information contribute to misunderstandings and explains how analyzing media helps make our interpretation processes transparent. She shows how creating media helps people share in the social power of representing ideas and identity and notes that such competencies are essential for advancing the social responsibilities of media consumers and creators.
Mind Over Media: Presentation at Hosei University JapanRenee Hobbs
Professor Renee Hobbs reviews research on media literacy and talks about analyzing contemporary propaganda as a means to promote intellectual curiosity and intercultural understanding
The Competing Narratives of Digital & Media LiteracyRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explores the history of media literacy in an address to the Media Ecology Association upon receiving the Neil Postman Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Intellectual Activity.
Media Literacy, Artificial Intelligence and American ValuesRenee Hobbs
Delivered at the Holland Symposium at Angelo State University, February 15, 2024.
Digital tools are used to create a tsunami of entertainment, information, and persuasion that floods into our daily lives because media messages influence knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. Some people are overwhelmed and others are exhilarated by the rise of generative AI, which is quickly becoming normative for both creators and consumers alike. At the same time, mistrust and distrust are rising because it’s so easy to use digital media tools to activate strong emotions, simplify information, and attack opponents. Thanks to algorithmic personalization, new forms of propaganda are being created and shared on social media. Tailored to our deepest hopes, fears, and dreams, these messages can, at times, seem irresistible.
But the practice of media literacy education offers a humanistic response to the changing nature of knowledge caused by the rise of big data and its reshaping of the arts, business, the sciences, education, and the humanities. Learn how educators can help learners to ask critical questions that enable people to recognize the subtle forms of manipulation embedded in all forms of symbolic expression. Gain an understanding of the business models and technological affordances of AI, machine learning, and big data in order to distinguish between harmful and beneficial AI tools, texts, and technologies. Learn why creative and critical thinking, when it is combined with intellectual humility and empathy, help people develop the identity of a lifelong learner. When media literacy is embedded in education at all levels, people can find common ground, restore trust, and deepen respect for the shared human values of care and compassion.
BIOGRAPHY
Renee Hobbs is one of the world’s leading experts on media literacy education. She is Founder of the Media Education Lab, a global online community. Hobbs’s book, Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age won the 2021 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences from the American Association of Publishers. She began her career by offering the first teacher education program in media literacy education at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has since inspired a generation of students, teachers, and citizens on four continents who have helped develop a global media literacy movement. As a full professor at the University of Rhode Island, Hobbs has published 12 books and more than 200 scholarly and professional articles. Her engaging talks clearly demonstrate how media literacy can be implemented in home, school, workplace, and community settings. Audiences enjoy Hobbs’ passion and energy and the skillful way she engages people from all walks of life in ways that activate critical thinking about contemporary popular culture and media messages, especially the new types of persuasive genres on social media that may escape people’s scrutiny.
Everything You Need to Counter Misinformation Can Be Learned In KindergartenRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explains why solving the problem of misinformation and disinformation requires media literacy education in the elementary grades. Learn more:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/hobbs-misinfo-con-kiev
From Audiences to Authors: Children and Young People as Content Creators and...Renee Hobbs
Professor Renee Hobbs makes the inaugural lecture for the ICMC 2015 conference "Digital Future: Content, Community and Communication" in Ahmenabad, India.
Workshop: Media Literacy Instructional Practices for Every TeacherRenee Hobbs
How can media literacy education help address important community needs? Review 16 media literacy instructional practices that are foundational to students in primary and secondary education and learn about research on the specific characteristics of quality MIL education. Then work in a small group under deadline pressure to plan how you could implement one or more instructional practices to address a timely and relevant community issue, using a creative design process to imagine educational futures.
Media Literacy Education in a Global SocietyRenee Hobbs
What We’re Learning and What We Still Need to Know
By Renee Hobbs
Media literacy education has greatly increased in visibility as increasing political polarization continues to threaten democratic societies. Around the world, tech companies invest in media literacy education, hoping that it will stave off regulation of their digital platforms. Journalists and politicians hope media literacy education will increase the public’s appetite for quality journalism to improve civic education. Parents expect that media literacy will help protect their children against the harms and risks of growing up with social media. And educators at all levels are beginning to recognize that the 4 C’s of media literacy (critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication skills) are increasingly central to an emerging conceptualization of a “new liberal arts” education. Which of these themes and areas of emphasis are privileged as media literacy education is implemented around the world? What are the most urgent needs still to be addressed? How can the many stakeholders for media literacy better coordinate their efforts to accelerate implementation?
Learn more: www.mediaeducationlab.com
Improving Reading Comprehension by Using Media Literacy Activities
By Renee Hobbs
Some literacy educators still hold to the idea that audiovisual media and digital technologies are the enemies of print culture, but a growing number of educators are exploring the synergistic relationship between different forms of reading that occur when the concept of text is expanded to include images, graphic design, multimodality, moving image media, and online content. At home, parents cultivate children's understanding of story structure by engaging in activities that involve children's re-telling of books, cartoons, games, and short films. They pause children's videos to ask questions, comment on action and predict what will happen next. Such practices cultivate viewing as a cognitively active process, a concept that was first articulated in the 1970s but continues to be more deeply appreciated with the rise of YouTube culture, where the distinction between authors and audiences is diminished. During the elementary grades, teachers use media literacy competencies when reading children's picturebooks, calling attention to when the words of a story and the image of the story conflict or deliver different messages. Active "reading" of picture books is a practice that foregrounds the meaning-making process and elevates reading comprehension beyond mere decoding. When educators reframe their work with youth as less about passing high-stakes tests and more about learning to navigate the multiple literacy contexts in which they live, learn, and work, students' motivation for reading increases. For this reason, literacy specialists are exploring links between disciplinary literacy, inquiry, and media literacy. Media literacy instructional practices honor students' popular culture and lived experience, and offer opportunities for students to bring their affect, emotion, imagination, and social interaction into reading practices that examine and challenge cultural conventions like materialism and consumerism that are reproduced in media culture on a daily basis.
Educators are themselves citizens who express and share political views as part of their personal identity. They may care deeply about issues including climate change, immigration/migration, growing economic inequality, health and wellness, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination, or other topics of concern. But in the classroom, some educators do not feel confident or comfortable exploring controversial issues with students, while others make clear their particular positions on political issues without necessarily reflecting on the inequality in power relationships that may silence their
students. The practice of critical media analysis and reflection help teachers navigate both the opportunities and the challenges of exploring contemporary controversies in the
classroom. Teachers benefit greatly from safe and structured opportunities to talk about the ethical and moral implications of their decisions to address or ignore controversial issues in the classroom.
Create to Learn: Advancing Collaboration and CreativityRenee Hobbs
Academic librarians, technologists, and higher education faculty have been actively experimenting with new forms of digital learning during the global pandemic. In the process, they have discovered some valuable strategies and practices that will continue to fuel innovation in teaching, learning, and scholarship for years to come. In this session, we’ll discuss why it’s more important than ever before to have complicated conversations about all the literacies - information, media, news, digital, critical, and those that are yet to be named. How do these competencies get integrated into all programs and courses across the liberal arts and sciences? In this session, we’ll take time to experiment, working in small groups, using create-to-learn pedagogies that can provoke intellectual curiosity by combining play and learning. Then, we’ll reflect on how creative collaboration can offer a liberating way to open up spaces of possibility and adaptation for the stakeholders in our own institutions and communities.
Renee Hobbs is an expert in digital and media literacy education and she is the author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age, which was awarded the 2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences from the Association of American Publishers. As professor of communication studies and director of the Media Education Lab, she co-directs the Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy at the University of Rhode Island. She has published 12 books and over 150 scholarly and professional articles and developed multimedia learning resources for elementary, secondary and college teachers.
Webinar digitale geletterdheid, de lerarenopleiding en de leraar van de toekomstRenee Hobbs
Digitale geletterdheid in het curriculum: Hoe digitaal geletterd moet de #leraar van de toekomst zijn? En wat vraagt dat van de #lerarenopleidingen? In dit #webinar gaat hoogleraar communicatiewetenschappen @reneehobbs hierop in. Bent u erbij? https://lnkd.in/dANk6Cy
Propaganda vs. Democracy in a Digital AgeRenee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs shows how digital learning that addresses the needs of educators can have transformative impact in addressing the needs of learners growing up in a world full of propaganda and disinformation.
Is Ripping for Fair Use Still Important? Considering DMCA 1201 in 2020 and B...Renee Hobbs
Is Ripping for Fair Use Still Important? Considering DMCA 1201 in 2020 and Beyond
Is Ripping for Fair Use Still Important? Considering DMCA 1201 in 2020 and Beyond
Presented by Renee Hobbs
Media literacy educators rely on the ability to access movies and popular culture and use them for learning purposes. As “create to learn” pedagogies become increasingly common, students, educators and library patrons continue to rely on ripped excerpts from DVDs. After all, ripped clips of movie DVDs can be educationally useful in presentations as well as in composing remix media production projects. Thanks to the DMCA 1201 exemption, ripping DVDs is legal for educational and creative purposes. But with the rise of streaming media and screencasting, is the process of “ripping” DVDs still as relevant and important as it was in 2006? In this discussion, we’ll consider the future of DMCA 1201, the law that impacts educators, learners, creative people, and librarians. Using an open discussion, we’ll consider the question: Given the rise of streaming video and screencasting and the decline of DVD players in schools, is it worth the effort to preserve the exemption? Why or why not?
Tuesday, November 3, 2020, 2pm-3pm ET
Council of Europe Digital Citizenship Days, November 3, 2020Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs explains why the coronavirus crisis created an opportunity for teacher empowerment, as they discovered the importance of feeling safe online, empathic listening, guided and open inquiry, and enhanced care and responsibility towards others. Learn more: www.mediaeducationlab.com
Best Practices in Digital Learning, Anytime & Real TimeRenee Hobbs
How can digital learning be implemented in ways that deepen engagement and accelerate learning? The coronavirus crisis has created an opportunity to deepen digital literacy and learning competencies for teachers and students alike. In this session, we'll model and reflect upon three best practices of digital learning that go far beyond the Zoom or Google Classroom. Learn more about how trust and respect develop in online communities and discover the power of create-to-learn pedagogies that deepen engagement and accelerate learning. Learn strategies that help you to incorporate "anytime" and "real time" learning for students, teachers, and staff. Even when the coronavirus crisis is over, the best practices of digital learning are relevant to what happens in the classroom as we cultivate habits of mind that advance lifelong learning.
Adult Learners as Media Makers: Create-to-Learn Pedagogies in Online LearningRenee Hobbs
Profesor Hobbs describes her approach to supporting adult learners as they become digital authors as a result of participating in the Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy, University of Rhode Island.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
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In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Understanding Fake News: Perspectives from the Scholarship on Digital and Media Literacy
1. Renee Hobbs
Professor of Communication Studies
Director, Media Education Lab
University of Rhode Island USA
Twitter: @reneehobbs
Understanding “Fake News”
Perspectives from the Scholarship on
Digital and Media Literacy
7. LOVE HATE
PRINT VISUAL SOUND DIGITAL
EMPOWERMENT – PROTECTION PARADIGM
People have a love-hate relationship with
media, technology and popular culture
9. New Realities in a
Networked Global Society
Cost to produce
content is low
Massive
fragmentation of
production &
consumption
Viral sharing means
popularity = profit
Content is consumed
as unbundled
snippets on social
media
10. Selective exposure
Confirmation bias
Reality maintenance
Performative sharing
60% of people share
content without
reading/viewing it
Essentials of Human
Information Processing
11. New Forms of Authority & Expertise
Attention economics is surpassing traditional forms of authority and expertise
our attention — and
most of it free —
being found is
valuable."
Immediacy
Personalization
Interpretation
Findability
13. POSTED TO THE
Seattle Tribune
Sunday, Feb. 26
IDENTIFIED AS FAKE
Snopes
Thursday, March 2
Politfact
Friday, March 3
FLAGGED BY FACEBOOK
Saturday, March 4
14. re
Sample: A representative sample of
1,684 UK adults
Method. Participants were shown 6
news stories: 3 were true, 3 were
false
Findings:
• Only 4% accurately identified the stories
that were accurate and those which
were fake
• 49% thought at least one of the fake
stories was true
• Among those who consider Facebook a
primary source of news, 71% thought at
least one of the fake stories was true
SOURCE: Channel 4, UK. Fake News
Research, February 7, 2017.
15. Six Types of “Fake News”
Disinformation
Propaganda
17. Six Types of “Fake News”
Errors in Journalism
Partisanship
18. Blurring Genres and Motives
Disinformation
Propaganda
Hoax
Parody/Satire
Errors in Journalism
Partisanship
Informing and Engaging the Public
Controlling Knowledge, Attitudes & Values
Cultural Criticism or Creative Expression
27. Messages are Constructed
Representations
Messages Influence
Attitudes and Behaviors
People Interpret
Messages Differently
Messages Use Different
Codes and Conventions
Messages Have
Economic &
Political Power
28. Algorithms are not neutral: because they are constructed
by people, they have an author, purpose, point of view &
bias
New forms of online news and information are evolving
with a range of different “signals of quality”
Because people create & interpret messages in light of
their lived experience, respect for diverse perspectives is
needed
Everyone needs to understand the economics of the
Internet, especially pay-per-click, sponsored content and
native advertising
People need to take time to reflect on how they are using
the media and how the media is using them
30. “The Role of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Instructional Strategies
in the Prevention of Violent Extremism,” United Nations, Febuary 9, 2017
31.
32. Based on a major research project funded by
the European Commission
Explores how discriminatory stereotypes are
built online with a particular focus on right-
wing populism
Recognizes that young people are the
preferred target for promoting hate speech
Examines how media literacy education can
help to deconstruct hate speech and
promote young people’s full participation in
media-saturated societies
Professor Maria Ranieri, University of Florence
34. “There have been no official and systematic policies
created by the Italian Ministry of Education, and
development in media education and its application
has only been provided by some scholars in the
universities and by teachers in the schools.
ICT and media literacy education are still not
included as a compulsory part of the curriculum…”
40. Media organizations & educational leaders can
reduce political polarization and strengthen
global democracy by building people’s
digital and media literacy competencies
42. o Hobbs R. & Tuzel, S. (2017). The Use of Social Media and Popular Culture to Advance Cross Cultural
Understanding. Communicar.
o Media Education Lab (2016). Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda. [Interactive media.]
www.mindovermedia.tv
o Martens, H. & Hobbs, R. (2015). How media literacy supports civic engagement in a digital age. Atlantic
Journal of Communication 23(2), 120 – 137.
o Hobbs, R. & McGee, S. (2014). Teaching about propaganda: An examination of the historical roots of
media literacy. Journal of Media Literacy Education 6(2), 56 – 67.
o Hobbs, R. (2013). Improvization and strategic risk taking in informal learning with digital media literacy.
Learning, Media and Technology, 38(2), 182-197.
o Hobbs, R. (2013). The blurring of art, journalism and advocacy: Confronting 21st century propaganda in a
world of online journalism. I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 8(3), 625 – 638.
o Hobbs, R., Yoon, J., Al-Humaidan, R., Ebrahimi, A. & Cabral, N. (2011). Online digital media in elementary
school. Journal of Middle East Media 7(1), 1 – 23.
o Hobbs, R., Ebrahimi, A., Cabral, N., Yoon, J., & Al-Humaidan, R. (2011). Field-based teacher education in
elementary media literacy as a means to promote global understanding. Action for Teacher Education 33,
144 – 156.
o Hobbs, R. (2011). A snapshot of multinational media education in six European countries. Trans:
Un’istantanea multinazionale sulla ME in sei paesi europei. Media Education. Studi, ricerche, buone
pratiche [Italy] 1(1), 53 – 70.
o Hobbs, R., Cohn-Geltner, H. & Landis, J. (2011). Views on the news: Media literacy empowerment
competencies in the elementary grades. In C. Von Feilitzen, U. Carlsson & C. Bucht (Eds.). New questions,
new insights, new approaches. The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media.
NORDICOM. University of Gothenburg, Sweden (pp. 43 – 56).
o Hobbs, R. and RobbGrieco, M. (2010). Passive dupes, code breakers, or savvy users: Theorizing media
literacy education in English language arts. In D. Lapp and D. Fisher (Eds.), Handbook of research on
teaching the English language arts. Third edition. New York: Routledge (pp. 283 – 289).
www.mediaeducationlab.com
43. Renee Hobbs
Professor of Communication Studies
Director, Media Education Lab
Harrington School of Communication
and Media
University of Rhode Island USA
Email: hobbs@uri.edu
Twitter: @reneehobbs
WEB: www.mediaeducationlab.com
Editor's Notes
I’m interested in media literacy, which is the ability to access, analyze and evaluate, and create messages – in a wide variety of forms. Access - Analyze – Create – Reflect – Act.