fake news
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Read More: #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information requiredIn a move of admirable self-criticism—one I feel sympathetic to as myself a card-carrying member of the American critical new media left—danah boyd asks “did media literacy backfire?” “Addressing so-called…
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Read More: #17: Barak Obama says “we won’t know what to protect”In writing about fakeness itself as a foundational element of YouTube in 2009, I bemoaned the chilling effects of Barack Obama being heralded as the “YouTube President.” Obama’s YouTube jam…
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Read More: #16: practice strategic contemplation
Practicing strategic contemplation—what Rosylyn Rhee explains as having “to be comfortable being uncomfortable [because] so much of making documentary films is embracing the unknown”—is one of six “principles of feminist…
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Read More: #14: skepticism is a weapon and a qualityPlease feel free to use and share all or part of the CUNY J-School Research Center’s LibGuide for Reporters on Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News. Tabs include: • Checklists and…
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Read More: #13: conservatism trends toward performance artJeremy Peters writes today in the NYTimes: “Many on the right are pointing to the Yiannopoulos controversies as a symptom of a trend toward conservatism as performance art.” Read More…
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Read More: #11: real apologies for #fakenews aggravate its symptomsIn “20th Century Fox Gives Real Apology for a Fake News Campaign,” the chief executive of the public relations company Edelman engages in revealing doublespeak. He reflects upon the use…
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Read More: #8: FAKE! by DOVEMAN+TOM KALIN+CRAIG PAULL[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8bveD6n1_Y&w=560&h=315] See More: #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
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Read More: #7: skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracyToday’s media consumer cannot trust the internet, its news, or networks—fake or otherwise. Given the wretched state of today’s internet, skeptical, self-aware interaction with digital data is a critical foundation…
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Read More: #3: Trump is our rightful internet presidentGiven, as I have established in truths 1-2 (and elsewhere) that the internet is a place where: the true/false dichotomy disintegrates deception and manipulation organize and popularize discourse neoliberal values…
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Read More: #2: the fake news is very realBy this oxymoron I mean: that contemporary (and past) media manipulations and deceptions exist on the internet in increasing numbers and with expanding reach these have fomented crises during the…