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Fake or Visual Trickery? Understanding the Quantitative Visual Rhetoric in the News

Rohit Mehta; Lynette DeAun Guzmán · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In online and video/television spaces, news media discourses incorporate multimodal design as a discursive move capable of steering meaning toward desirable implications. Around the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, while polarized news outlets made their positionality on the candidates obvious, more neutral or central news outlets revealed their preferences…

Media literacy meets language education: Fictional Science (FiSci) promotes skills to identify and refute fake news

Stephan Schicker; Jürgen Ehrenmüller; Melanie Hendler; Victoria Reinsperger; Natalia Kubai; Lucia Miškulin Saletovi?; Bettina Steinbauer; Sabine Schmölzer-Eibinger · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This article presents the theoretical and conceptual foundations of the interdisciplinary didactic concept of Fictional Science (FiSci), which is positioned at the interface between media and language didactics. Based on reference concepts such as epistemic vigilance, inoculation, lateral reading, and media literacy in education, FiSci aims to promote second…

Vulnerability profiles and educational demands of Spanish university students in the face of fake news

M. Esther Del Moral Pérez; Jonathan Castañeda Fernández; Nerea López-Bouzas; M. Carmen Bellver Moreno · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This study is part of the Surfing the Waves of Fake News (SURFake) project, involving 543 Spanish university students. Its purpose is to understand the variables related to potentially risky practices students engage in on social media and their educational shortcomings. An opinion questionnaire was used to establish levels of vulnerability to fake news. The…

Measuring fake news acumen using a news media literacy instrument

Tyler W. S. Nagel · DOAJ Open Access Articles

News media literacy education is gaining increased attention in the age of fake news and post-truth America. However, as with any pedagogical goal, it is important to be able to evaluate the success of the delivery. In a survey built on existing news literacy frameworks, 1476 students at a large Canadian polytechnic answered questions about their own news li…

Taking corrective action when exposed to fake news: The role of fake news literacy

Brigitte Huber; Porismita Borah; Homero Gil de Zúñiga · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Fake news poses a threat to democracy. The rise of social media and its lax content regulation have facilitated a dynamic environment where mis- and disinformation are spread. However, social media is also the place where false information may be corrected. Initial scholarly efforts begin to highlight what is needed for citizens to take corrective action whe…

The impact of media and information literacy on students’ acquisition of the skills needed to detect fake news

Reem M Al Zou'bi · DOAJ Open Access Articles

This research investigated the impact of media and information literacy (MIL) on education faculty students’ acquisition of the skills needed to detect fake news. A one-group experimental design was employed with a randomly selected sample of 100 Jordanian undergraduate students. The participants completed one pre-test and two post-tests, each of which consi…

Beyond ‘fake news’: Opportunities and constraints for teaching news literacy

Judith E. Rosenbaum; Jennifer L. Bonnet; R. Alan Berry · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Teaching news literacy has, in recent decades, become cross-disciplinary, and as a result, more collaborative. This paper centers the importance of this collaboration by describing a workshop designed and taught by a media studies professor, a media literacy expert, and their subject librarian. In this essay, we discuss the workshop in terms of best practice…

Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Media Literacy: A Response to “Fake News”

Todd S Cherner; Kristal Curry · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The call to integrate media literacy into public education is not new. However, with the rise of “fake news” and sensationalism along with technology’s ever-growing role in society, media literacy offers teachers and students a set of skills to analyze, critique, and respond to the information that appears before them in the digital texts they read, the tele…

News literacy and fake news curriculum: School librarians’ perceptions of pedagogical practices

Lesley Farmer · DOAJ Open Access Articles

The high profile of fake news reveals underlying trends in the production and consumption of news. While news literacy is a lifelong skill, the logical time to start teaching such literacy is in K-12 educational settings, so that all people have the opportunity to learn and practice news literacy. School librarians can play a critical role in helping student…

Book Review: Fact vs. fiction: Teaching critical thinking skills in the age of fake news

Morgan Carter · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News, is a book full of resources and instructional strategies to help educators teach media literacy skills in today’s fake news environment. Arguably, media literacy skills are needed now more than ever, and this review provides a brief overview and key takeaways from each chapter.…

Media Literacy, Democracy, and the Challenge of Fake News

Lance E Mason; Dan Krutka; Jeremy Stoddard · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In this essay, the authors offer a context for discussions about fake news, democracy, and considerations for media literacy education. Drawing on media ecology and critical media studies, they highlight the longer history of fake news and how this concept cannot be separated from the media technologies in which cultures grow. They discuss current iterations…

Book review: Developing digital detectives: Essential lessons for discerning fact from fiction in the ‘Fake News’ Era

Ashley Cooksey · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Re: Beyond Fake News

Nate Floyd; Jaclyn Spraetz · DOAJ Open Access Articles

A student success librarian with a Ph.D. in mass communication and an information literacy librarian with an M.A. in secondary English education describe their efforts to innovate in the field of news literacy by incorporating the media effects research tradition. By highlighting the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive elements of information processing, th…

Book review: Developing digital detectives: Essential lessons for discerning fact from fiction in the ‘Fake News’ Era

Ashley Cooksey · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Teaching beyond verifying sources and “fake news”: Critical media education to challenge media injustices

Jeremy Stoddard; Jonathan Tunstall; Leila Walker; Emily Wight · DOAJ Open Access Articles

Current popular media literacy programs overemphasize the verifiability, reliability, and expertise of sources over the analysis of how marginalized groups are represented. This analysis privileges traditional news sources – and a hierarchy of “objective” news. These same institutions have been historically responsible for producing and reinforcing stereotyp…

Historical Authenticity

Anonim

Authenticity has become a key concept in the culture of history and memory in the 21st century . This open access book explores the multifaceted nature of ‘historical authenticity’ and its uses in various academic, museum, and historical-cultural contexts. In 70 alphabetically-arranged articles, Historical Authenticity explains how authenticity can enable in…

Digital Literacy in the Post-Truth Era: Employing Fact-Checking Applications in Adult EFL Reading Classes

Ikhsan, Muhammad · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

The term ‘digital literacy’ encompasses many skills, which include the ability to evaluate information received through digital technologies, such as internet platforms, social media and mobile devices. Due to the fast spreading of hoax news through digital platforms in this post-truth era, it is urgently needed for this particular skill to be taught in …

Literasi Informasi dan Literasi Media

Purwaningtyas, Franindya · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

Globalisasi menciptakan dunia yang borderless atau tanpa batas sehingga informasi dapat tersebar secara luas tanpa ada filter yang menghasilkan bercampurnya informasi hoax atau fake. Dalam menentukan kebutuhan informasi yang beragam di era digital masyarakat diminta untuk lebih selektif, peka dan berpikir kritis terhadap informasi yang tersebar secara random…

Can high school students check the veracity of information about COVID-19? A case study on critical media literacy in Brazilian ESL classes

Karin Paola Meyrer; Dorotea Frank Kersch · DOAJ Open Access Articles

In a globalized world, critical media literacy is imperative when selecting the content we consume amid countless offers. Therefore, the purpose of this case study is to analyze which resources 3rd year high school students (16-17 years old) from an English as a Second Language class in Brazil use in the construction of authorial journalistic articles demyst…

Digital Literacy in the Post-Truth Era: Employing Fact-Checking Applications in Adult EFL Reading Classes

Ikhsan, Muhammad · Repository UIN Sumatera Utara

The term ‘digital literacy’ encompasses many skills, which include the ability to evaluate information received through digital technologies, such as internet platforms, social media and mobile devices. Due to the fast spreading of hoax news through digital platforms in this post-truth era, it is urgently needed for this particular skill to be taught in …