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    Articles tagged media literacy (26)

    Hanaa' TameezAugust 29, 2024
    This news aggregator–slash–dating app helps news nerds meet
    “The idea is matching on the things that you enjoy.”
    A large group of people in graduation gowns in black and white.
    Sophie CulpepperJune 8, 2023
    The Star Tribune is offering high school grads across Minnesota free one-year digital subscriptions
    The Tribune set 200 graduating seniors as an “original modest benchmark” for sign-ups and has already surpassed 250.
    Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Dani Madrid-Morales, Emeka Umejei, Etse Sikanku, Gregory Gondwe, Herman Wasserman, Khulekani Ndlovu, and Melissa TullyJune 2, 2021
    Spotting hoaxes: How young people in Africa use cues to spot misinformation online
    Some college students surveyed showed substantial media literacy — but being able to recognize a fake story didn’t always deter them from sharing it.
    Laura Hazard OwenDecember 4, 2020
    Facebook will spend less time policing “Men are trash” content, more time taking down “Worst of the Worst”
    Plus: Cut the CRAAP, and Facebook’s Oversight Board announces the first cases it will take on.
    Mike CaulfieldJanuary 29, 2020
    Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers
    Sometimes it’s the sort of basic Internet skill you might take for granted — like knowing how to search a web page — that can stop someone from sharing fake news.
    “Troubling”: High school students (like most people) are not good at evaluating misinformation
    Laura Hazard OwenJuly 12, 2019
    Nuclear disasters, information vacuums: How a lack of data in Fukushima led to the spread of fake health news
    Plus: All the media literacy resources, and giving parents information about the flu vaccine.
    Laura Hazard OwenMarch 22, 2019
    The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests
    Plus: Instagram is fertile ground for conspiracy theories, Apple gives to media literacy, and a terror attack comes with its own media strategy.
    Christine SchmidtOctober 23, 2018
    Younger generations are actually better at telling news from opinion than those over age 50
    The kids, it turns out, are alright.
    Americans feel they can best distinguish news from opinion in local TV news; worst, online news sites and social media
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