Propaganda, Fake News & The Need for Media Literacy

Propaganda, Fake News & The Need For Media Literacy Education

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Edward R Murrow Civil Rights Images Images from Wars

NCSS Position Statement on ML

“The deluge of unfiltered information that streams through the Internet has necessitated a change in our pedagogical orientation--forcing us to focus more on teaching students to analyze and evaluate information rather than to remember it.”

NCSS Position Statement on ML

What is media literacy?

"Media Literacy is concerned with helping students develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of mass media, the techniques used by them and the impact of these techniques. More specifically, it is education that aims to increase students’ understanding and enjoyment of how the media work, how they produce meaning, how they are organized, and how they construct reality. Media literacy also aims to provide students with the ability to create media products." Source: Ontario Ministry of

Education

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“We (communication specialists) can use our skills to teach people how to fact-check emails, Tweets, and Facebook postings. How to respond to racist, homophobic, or hateful email and social media posts. How pictures and statistics can lie. We can teach them how to fight the spread of hateful propaganda, whether from a neo-Nazi in his parent’s basement or a member of ISIS on a laptop in Syria. And how to disagree without being disagreeable.”

former AT&T communications chief Dick Martin

Source: https://firstdraftnews.com/fake-news-complicated/

Source: https://firstdraftnews.com/fake-news-complicated/

Many of us, including our students, are TOO QUICK TO POST without verification.

We MUST teach THINK BEFORE POSTING.

Think Before You Post video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjd73tUXig

Real or fake? How do you know?





Fox Plants Trump-Putin Fake News Story to Promote New Movie Source: The Hollywood Reporter, 2/13/17

Fake news and students who believe it 82% of middle-schoolers couldn’t distinguish between an ad labeled

“sponsored content” and a real news story on a website

More than two out of three middle-schoolers couldn’t see any valid reason to mistrust a post written by a bank executive arguing that young adults need more financial-planning help

nearly four in 10 high-school students believed, based on the headline, that a photo of deformed daisies on a photo-sharing site provided strong evidence of toxic conditions near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, even though no source or location was given for the photo.

Source: WSJ story on Stanford University study

How to Fact-Check Fake NewsWeb Sites

https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/vb.6622931938/10154548775681939/?type=2&theater




Fact Check Checking Fact Check for Fake News Websites video:





Impact of “Fake News” Titled Social Media and Fake

News in the 2016 election, the study did find that there were many more fake news stories that favored Donald Trump. Fake stories in his favor were shared 30 million times on Facebook during the campaign. Pro-Clinton fake stories, meanwhile, were shared about 7 million times.

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/02/16/514364210/5-ways-teachers-are-fighting-fake-news

http://frankwbaker.com/mlc/fake-news-recommendations/

Fact Checking Web Resources

http://frankwbaker.com/mlc/propaganda/

What constitutes “propaganda”?

Holocaust Museum Propaganda Exhibit Tour video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af44Slin7lg&t=6s



http://propaganda.mediaeducationlab.com/

The Mind Over Media website uses crowdsourcing to create a Propaganda Gallery. Users upload content, share their personal interpretations, and then evaluate the potential impact of the images, websites and videos they share.

Mind Over Media Introductory Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OvWxM9ZT4U

Commercial: is this propaganda?

BP Gulf Oil Cleanup Commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoOfIR4Vk1o



"BlackFish" highlighted the dangers of holding killer whales in captivity, focusing specifically on a SeaWorld orca that killed three people.

Blackfish Documentary Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLOeH-Oq_1Y



Questions?

Propaganda, Fake News & The Need For Media Literacy Education

Frank W Baker media [email protected]:@fbaker

www.frankwbaker.com