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Northeast Media Literacy Conference:

The Past, Present and Future of Media Literacy Education

Sat., Feb. 4, 2017
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Conn.


Defining the Fake News Moment: Fiction, Fad, Fatal or Media Lit Opportunity?

Plenary "unconference" breakout: 1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
With Katherine Fry, Allison Butler, Mellisa Zimdars and Bill Densmore


In the last six months, our political discourse has been infected by a new term: “Fake News.” In a 45-minute, circle-round session, we’ll probe the limits of what the term might mean, and how it might be an opportunity to mainstream media-literacy education. We’ll drive toward a consensus statement, addressing such questions as: How do current concepts of “fake” news differ from what was published by 18th-century pamphleteers, or 1960s supermarket tabloids? Is news “fake” based on point of view only, or because it reports as facts things that are demonstrably untrue? Is it only “fake” if its intention is to mislead? Who defines “mislead?” In an age when all of us can be reporters via our Facebook feed, do we all need tutoring on how to create — and consume — trustworthy reporting and information? In social media, is news now anything more than verified gossip? Who is the trusted verifier? Our “conversation catalysts” will start the discussion, then we’ll invite all to to participate.

Our “conversation catalysts” will include:


After the plenary discussion, Bulter, Fry and Zimdars will each lead half-hour, deeper-dive breakouts.


ACCESS BACKGROUND MATERIALS


BELOW FROM: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/opinion/online-and-scared.html

EXCERPT FROM A COLUMN BY THOMAS FRIEDMAN:

It’s a huge legal, moral and strategic problem, and it will require . . . “a new social compact” to defuse.
Work on that compact has to start with every school teaching children digital civics. And that begins with teaching them that the internet is an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information, where they need to bring skepticism and critical thinking to everything they read and basic civic decency to everything they write.
A Stanford Graduate School of Education study published in November found “a dismaying inability by students to reason about information they see on the internet. Students, for example, had a hard time distinguishing advertisements from news articles or identifying where information came from. … One assessment required middle schoolers to explain why they might not trust an article on financial planning that was written by a bank executive and sponsored by a bank. The researchers found that many students did not cite authorship or article sponsorship as key reasons for not believing the article.”
Prof. Sam Wineburg, the lead author of the report, said: “Many people assume that because young people are fluent in social media they are equally perceptive about what they find there. Our work shows the opposite to be true.”

RELATED LINKS

  • WASHINGTON POST: Margaret Sullivan: It's time to retire the term 'fake news'
  • AMERICAN LIBRARIES: Fighting Fake News: How libraries can lead the way
  • DIGIDAY: Internet's underbelling: How digital advertising feeds fake news
  • MARKETINGLAND: Why Google may not be able to stop fake news
  • Shorenstein Center's academic resources and reports on 'fake news'
  • American Libraries Magazine: Fighting Fake News
  • Digiday: How content ad networks fund fake news
  • Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: "It's time to retire the tainted term "fake news"
  • AP story summarizes Trump-CNN dispute over Russian report
  • NYTimes, Amanda Taub: "The Real Story about Fake News is Partisanship"
  • The BBC is setting up a team to detect and debunk so-called 'fake news'
  • Craig Newmark gives $1M to Poynter Institute to help with ethics and 'fake news' challenge | SECOND STORY/Inside Philanthropy
  • What does a news organization optimized for trust look like?
  • VANITY FAIR: Preparing for 2016 -- an environment of even more-scary fake news?
  • NYTIMES: In race against fake news, Google and Facebook stroll to the starting line
  • COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW: Is fake news a fake problem?
  • TECHCRUNCH: Facebook changes algorithms to avoid posts that are fake, promotional or spam
  • THE VERGE: How Facebook and Google content technologies make lies as pretty as truth
  • THE GUARDIAN: The real crisis in journalism is geographic