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Minitex News articles tagged with "media literacy" (13):

Media Landscapes, ideas to action

In March of 2021, we launched the Media Landscapes campaign, with funding support from Minitex, the Multitypes, CRPSLA, and PALS. This campaign includes local, regional, and national speakers sharing their knowledge on topics from misinformation to filter bubbles to deepfakes.

Thing 7: Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation

Join us as we go through the free, self-paced Media Landscapes: 23 Things curriculum this summer! You can start at the beginning, or hop on any time. This week, we are on Thing 7: Disinformation, Misinformation, Malinformation.

Thing 6: Detecting Deepfakes

Join us as we go through the free, self-paced Media Landscapes: 23 Things curriculum this summer! You can start at the beginning, or hop on any time. This week, we are on Thing 6: Detecting Deepfakes.

Thing 5: Synthetic Media

Join us as we go through the free, self-paced Media Landscapes: 23 Things curriculum this summer! You can start at the beginning, or hop on any time. This week, we are on Thing 5: Synthetic Media.

Thing 4: The Attention Economy

Join us as we go through the free, self-paced Media Landscapes: 23 Things curriculum this summer! You can start at the beginning, or hop on any time. This week, we are on Thing 4: The Attention Economy.

Thing 3: Propaganda

Join us as we go through the free, self-paced Media Landscapes: 23 Things curriculum this summer! You can start at the beginning, or hop on any time. This week, we are on Thing 3: Propaganda: Making Media Great Again.

Free summer PD opportunity! Media Landscapes: 23 Things

Looking for free, online, self-paced, relevant professional development this summer? Join us as we work through the new Media Landscapes: 23 Things curriculum each week. This week, we'll register and complete Thing 1.

Final Media Landscapes event before summer hiatus

Join us for the last Media Landscapes event on May 25th before the summer hiatus.

Media literacy and the Internet: ALA's webinar series

Last week I attended another in ALA's Media Literacy webinar series. This session was titled, Media Literacy for Adults: Architecture of the Internet, and presented by Natasha Casey, Professor of Communications at Blackburn College. Her presentation was filled with information on how our digital environment functions, including cookies, algorithms, and questions to ask to start a discussion or program with library patrons.

Algorithmic personalization: My Google is not your Google

"Increasingly online, it's become impossible to escape your own point of view." -Eli Pariser

"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." -Mark Zuckerberg