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With a Critical Mindsetin Google’s Interland: The platformization of media literacy
- Type
- Journal Article
- Author
- Michael NN Forsman
- Year
- 2020
- Publisher
- Anais de Resumos Expandidos do Seminário Internacional de Pesquisas em Midiatização e Processos Sociais
- DOI/Link
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- Abstract
- In the current media landscape, we are flooded with a constant stream of disinformation, misinformation, and mal-information. This, in combination with fake news sensationalism, rumors, and a variety of chaotic manifestations from “the digital underbelly of the networked web” (Mihailidis, 2018, p. 152), make a potent combination of information warfare and popular culture. When these currents mix with social and political gaps and tensions, the result may prove to be disastrous. One, perhaps predictable, aspect of this “post-truth condition” is a growing distrust in the models, ideals, and institutions of democracy. Hence we can all agree on the importance of giving children (and others) the skills and techniques to dismantle and counteract disinformation and misinformation, fake news, hate speech and uncivilized online behavior. Often these matters are as discussed under umbrella terms like ”Media and information literacy”(MIL) or ”Digital competence”(DC)(Carlsson, 2019).
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Media Literacy, Critical Media Literacy
- Tags
- Critical thinking, Media analysis
- PGDMIL Course
- C02 – Media, Technology and Content
- PGDMIL Block
- C02-B2: Hybrid Media Cultures
- Has Part
- C02-U05: Platformisation of Media Content
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review
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