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(See also Media Literacy for related material and resources)
" This is a recorded presentation of a workshop on the basics of news literacy created as part of a series on Citizen Literacy. This workshop covers the origins of the news, the process by which news gets made, the difference between reporting and editorializing and the phenomenon of infotainment."
In this section of the Citizen Literacy Workshop Series we discussed the news, what it is, how it gets made, the difference between reporting and editorializing, and the phenomenon of infotainment, and how it has led to a lot of the current messes in our country.
CAL POLY POMONA
In this session of our Citizen Literacy Workshop Series we will be discussing expertise and authority, who has it? How do they get it?
CAL POLY POMONA
(from PEN AMERICA)
"NewsGuard has identified 49 news and information sites that appear to be almost entirely written by artificial intelligence software. A new generation of content farms is on the way."
(includes How to Evaluate a Web Site)
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Sam Wineburg and Michael Caulfield write:
“Recent headlines warn of sophisticated, AI-driven deepfakes.
But low-tech, cheap fakes are the Swiss army knife in the propagandist’s tool belt.
Changing a date, altering a location or even repurposing a clip from a video game and passing it off as battlefield combat require little know-how yet effectively sow confusion.
The good news is that you can avoid being taken in by these ruses—not by examining the evidence closely, which is liable to mislead you, but by waiting until trusted sources verify what you’re looking at. This is often hard to do, however.”...
The Conversation, Nov. 16
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(From the Washington State OER Commons)
"Students examine what deepfakes are and consider the deeper civic and ethical implications of deepfake technology. In an age of easy image manipulation, this lesson fosters critical thinking skills that empower students to question how we can mitigate the impact of doctored media content. This lesson plan includes a slide deck and brainstorm sheet for classroom use." (from the Washington State OER Collection)
Deepfakes 101: What they are, how they work, and how to spot them. (w/video examples)
FAKE NEWS HAS A LONG and SORDID HISTORY - back in the 19th Century, it was sometimes known as YELLOW JOURNALISM.
Here is a Library of Congress Guide to Yellow Journalism:
Subjects American History , Newspapers , Topics in Chronicling America
You can explore the topic of "yellow journalism" further using the following search strategies, courtesy of the Library of Congress:
From C-SPAN:
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The Veronica Butcher Fake Sources Collection --from the Gould Library, Carleton University: https://gouldguides.carleton.edu/c.php?g=616823
Global trust in media declines
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(Created by Stephen Perry)
News deserts
“A fifth of the country’s population—70 million people—now live in an area with no local news organizations, or one at risk, with only one local news outlet and very limited access to critical news and information. The United States continues to lose newspapers at a rate of two per week. . . . About 7 percent of the nation’s counties, or 211, now have no local newspaper.”
Erin Karter, “As Newspapers Close, Struggling Communities Are Hit Hardest by the Decline in Local Journalism,” Northwestern Now, June 29, 2022,
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/06/newspapers-close-decline-in-local-journalism (retrieved July 12, 2022).
"This handbook introduces journalists to the skills necessary to survive and thrive in the digital environment. The content is practical, not conceptual, and readers will be able to perform skills the same day they read about them. The handbook is organized to focus on on discipline at a time, and guides users along the way, breaking down each skill and technology into digestible lessons that will be immediately usable."
Introduction:
A Smooth Sea Never Made a Skilled Sailor
Chapter 1:
FTP, MB, RSS, oh My!
Chapter 2:
Web 2.0
Chapter 3:
Tools and Toys
Chapter 4:
New Reporting Methods
Chapter 5:
How to Blog
Chapter 6:
How to Report News for the Web
Chapter 7:
Digital Audio and Podcasting
Chapter 8:
Shooting and Managing Digital Photos
Chapter 9:
Shooting Video for News and Feature Stories
Chapter 10:
Basic Video Editing
Chapter 11:
Writing Scripts, Doing Voice-overs
Epilogue:
Putting it All Together
Appendix:
Script for Hurricane Family Feature
I. Main Body
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1. Ethics
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2. Research
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3. The Five Elements of Fiction
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4. Theme
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5. Character
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6. Setting
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7. Plot
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8. Point of View
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9. Digital Storytelling
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Journalist's Toolbox
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Curious about Clubhouse and other social media platforms? Figuring out how to make a proper FOIA request?
Snooping for search engine optimization tips? Look no further than Journalist's Toolbox.
Launched by journalism professor Mike Reilley in 1996, and since a project of the Society of Professional Journalists, the site serves as an information hub for those in the field. Reilley continues to update the site (sometimes weekly, sometimes daily) and it is now home to more than 150 pages and thousands of tools available under a Creative Commons license.
For example, the home page highlights a COVID-19 reporting collection. Here, journalists covering the pandemic will find more than 500 useful resources, ranging from safety protocols to statistics. Other resources are cataloged topically in the left-hand column.
To keep up with the latest additions to the site, click "What's New" in the top-right corner, sign up for the newsletter, or subscribe to the YouTube channel (links to do so are found on the home page).
Readers can also keep up with Reilley and the Toolbox on Twitter, @journtoolbox.
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Comments (1)
SP said
at 2:17 pm on Nov 8, 2013
Another fantastic and free web site for Open Access Textbooks in all subject fields is now available via the Merlot web site:
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?materialType=Open%20Textbook&sort.property=overallRating
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