#1: Media Literacy Fundamental: What is Media?
Summary: Media is no longer an influence on our culture, it is ingrained within our culture. Examining various mediums enable one...
#4: Exploring Media Filter Bubbles
Summary: Each internet user creates unique patterns within their user history. These patterns determine online media consumption by surrounding...
#7: Exploring Circular Reporting
Summary: Circular reporting or false confirmation is where a piece of information appears to come from multiple independent sources, but in reality...
#10: The Impact of Media Imagery, Headlines and Captions
Summary: Media images can be understood differently based on context, information, edits and individual perspective. How we...
#2: Media Literacy Fundamental: What is Media Literacy?
Summary: Media literacy provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms...
#5: Learning with Media: Then & Now
Summary: In the early 1940's Professor Edgar Dale encouraged the public to read the newspaper in a critical manner. This was...
#3: Media Literacy Fundamental: Hidden Codes of Media
Summary: Media utilizes various codes to gain attention, create meaning and alter personal perception. Recognizing various codes within media allows...
#6: Seeing Beyond the Fake News
Summary: The term 'fake news' has become a media buzz word over the last few years, but what exactly is fake...
#8: Beneficial and Detrimental Propaganda
Summary: Propaganda is intentionally-designed communication that invites us to respond emotionally...
#9: Visual Literacy
Summary: Media images have the ability to foster discussion and debate surrounding larger social issues. Visual literacy focuses on sensory...
#11: Analyzing Satire in Popular Culture
Summary: Satire exists in various styles and formats. Including images, articles, actor portrayals or other media. Satire is usually created to...
#12: Navigating the 'Post-Truth' Era
Summary: The current "post-truth" media climate offers an opportunity to examine false and/or exaggerated information and analyze how truth is often...