{"id":611,"date":"2023-08-29T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/?p=611"},"modified":"2023-08-29T16:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T23:28:33","slug":"media-literacy-responsibility-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/2023\/08\/29\/media-literacy-responsibility-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Literacy Responsibility\/Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tara Pixley (co-host)<br>Alayna Hutchinson (co-host)<br>Doron Taussig<br>Michelle Ferrier\u00a0<br>Summer Moore<br>Ben Schittler<br>Steven Arroyo\u00a0<br>Taylor Naroz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Defining media literacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understanding media process and practices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disinformation\/misinformation, how to identify it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to understand facts and sources<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understanding communication channels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Everyone has lots of different truths, but facts are facts; we come to our truths&nbsp;&nbsp;through the assessment of facts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Media literacy to digital resilience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Michelle Ferrier\u2019s work\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Developed a curriculum called Generation Zeitgeist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Looking at how to change behaviors online and address harms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Media literacy is a global problem, it\u2019s not getting easier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Traditional mediums through which people receive their news rapidly changed, distrust rose, and for many people and communities there had been a history of distrust due to harm caused in those communities, specifically communities of color<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pew Research Center looks at trust in all cultural institutions and has found that trust in all institutions has declined<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People only follow social media accounts and news organizations that deliver the news they\u2019re interested in<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>People can become radicalized easily because they don\u2019t have time to process a lot of information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journalism education is behind; many journalism professors have not been in a newsroom for 20+ years<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many journalists are not media literate &#8211; they are not taught critical thinking. The idea of objectivity is deeply ingrained<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journalism started paying attention to the needs of media literacy when misinformation\/disinformation became a huge problem, but this problem has existed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One part is the individual changing their behavior, but it\u2019s also building media literacy into news practices and news product development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Community members need to be including in the news production processes\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Deep listening and co-creation with community members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Example: WBEZ (Chicago) Community Listening Sessions\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Journalists hold 1:1 conversations with community members in public spaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journalist listens to what\u2019s happening in the community and asks what community members want to see covered<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journalist collects information and produces stories based on that information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Journalists need to understand and acknowledge their own biases, and to go beyond interviewing skills and to learn more listening skills and relationship building<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There needs to be a radical shift within journalism education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Media literacy education should be taught at the elementary level\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Media literacy curriculums: Facing History and Ourselves, News Literacy Project, Coalition for Children\u2019s Media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teach children research skills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants: Tara Pixley (co-host)Alayna Hutchinson (co-host)Doron TaussigMichelle Ferrier\u00a0Summer MooreBen SchittlerSteven Arroyo\u00a0Taylor Naroz Defining media literacy Media literacy to digital resilience Media literacy is a global problem, it\u2019s not getting easier Solutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-session-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/engagingemergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}