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Read More: Science is Real. This poem and more at March 14 Fake News Poetry readingThis is a poem and a video written by Jose G in October 2018 at a Fake News Poetry Workshop at Poets of Course. This and other poems from “My…
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Read More: A Fake News Poetry Reading to mark the 2nd 100: March 14, 10:15 EST – 12 pm, on ZoomIn 2016-17, I engaged in a daily practice for the first 100 days of a presidency, blogging about fake news and matters of civic decency, and as often as not…
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Read More: #91, we need the NEA and NEH to know how to imagine ourselves as a nationThis #100hardtruths was shared with me by my friend and mentor, Laura Wexler, the esteemed feminist scholar of photography and Principal Investigator of the NEH-supported Photogrammar Project: “Fake news has…
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Read More: #15: the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material resultsFake news directs our attention to something else we know to be true that remains often harder to see: the internet’s hidden corporate architecture and governmental backbone. The foundational lies…
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Read More: #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress“In the Library of Black Lies, Edgar Arceneaux challenges the narrative of American progress, and in particular, African American progress through the selection, placement, and modification of books in a…
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Read More: #38, the NEA matters, fight for the least-seen to speak truth to powerTwenty years ago, on March 13, 1997, Frank Rich penned an op-ed, “Lesbian Lookout,” in support of the NEA, which was under threat. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996), which…
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Read More: #35, science is realSee More: junkscience.com InsideClimate News 350.org March for Science, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
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Read More: #34: place matters; re/flecting the border“Last Sunday, just a few meters from Ana Teresa Fernández’s intervention [Erasing the Border (Borrando la Frontera)], Marcos Ramírez, better known as ERRE, staged a performative work titled Re/flecting the…
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Read More: #33: speed matters; there is safety in the slowToday’s internet seeks, supports, and succeeds via virality. The pursuit of virality for media content on the web is understood as a truism and a good, as self-evidently powerful, as…
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Read More: #32, take responsibility for our own acts of lookingLast summer, in “How Do I (Not) Look, Live Feed Video and Viral Black Death,” I wrote: We come to this cultural, political and media onslaught as individuals but, it…