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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.

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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.

  • NYTIMES: Media's next challenge -- overcoming the thread of fake news EXCERPT:

    “It’s the biggest crisis facing our democracy, the failing business model of real journalism,” Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri and a longtime critic of fake news, told me on Saturday. Ms. McCaskill said that “journalism is partly to blame” for being slow to adjust as the internet turned its business model upside down and social media opened the competitive floodgates. “Fake news got way out ahead of them,” she said.

    Also see: Frank Romano published, 1990 in TypeWorld: "We are the Press"

    CONVENING QUESTION:

    What consensus statement can we reach about news, trust, community and citizenship in a media-literate society?

  • What do we mean by fake news?
  • What do we do about it?
  • What roles must media-literacy educators -- and the public -- play?
  • Shaun King: Get to know your personal news sources
  • AUDIO: On the Media: The Breaking News Consumers Handbook -- How to detect untrustworthy news / PRINT IMAGE
  • NIEMAN LAB: Journalism in a Post-Truth Era: A Harvard Event \ LAUNCH VIDEO
  • CURRICULUM RESOURCES: Fake news and the spread of misinformation -- Shorenstein Center at Harvard

    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

  • MICHAEL ORESKES/NPR: "Audiences, Citizens and the Future of Journalism" -- Speech Oct. 19, 2007 at ONA Toronto
  • MICHAEL COPPS / FCC: Getting Media Right: A call to Action -- Speech, Dec. 2, 2010, NYC
  • CRAIG NEWMARK: I'm joining the fight against fake news" -- Inside Philanthropy
  • WASHINGTON POST: Margaret Sullivan: It's time to retire the term 'fake news'
  • HOWARD DEAN: On the failure of American medai to call out Donald Trump's campaign untruths -- Jan. 12/Williams College
  • 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

    THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM? -- SELECTED RESOURCES

  • Walter Williams: The Journalist's Creed
  • American Society of News Editors: Statement of Principles
  • BOOK: New Ethics of Journalism by Kelly McBride and Tom Rosenstiel
  • Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics