
…ncy to spread misinformation is the focus of a recently announced Rita Allen Foundation initiative. Generating ideas for remedies to the problem will require contributions from a wide range of researchers, practitioners, and citizens, as the circumstances that led to our current dilemma have many authors.
s well as black communities who see mainstream media as rooted in the history of slavery and white supremacy) have little patience for the logi… educators integrate progressive social justice values into conservative cultural logics.
Context: To the best that I can tell, every program I’ve seen is rooted in progressive (predominantly white) ways of thinking. I know that communities who define “fake news” as CNN (as well as black communities who see mainstream media as rooted in the history of slavery and white supremacy) have little patience for the logics of progressive white educators. So what does media literacy look like when it starts with religious and/or conservative frameworks? What examples exist?
… in part, when demonstrably false information pushes other useful information off the public stage. Accepting the risk of misinformation’s appearance on our screens doesn’t mean we can’t also seek ways to combat its prevalence, undermine its credibility, and together invest in information sources dedicated to presenting accurate information that usefully predicts future outcomes rather than noise for the sake of drawing eyeballs.