My new online digital media literacy course: an outline
I’ve created a new course for the Arizona State University’s online program, on digital media literacy. It’s a follow-up to an earlier course that focuses on media “consumption” (a word I dislike in...
View ArticleI want to create “The Open Internet MOOC”— and you can help
The Knight, Ford and Mozilla Foundations are collaborating on the latest edition of the long-running Knight News Challenge. This one asks, “How can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and...
View Article“Speaking Openly” on Open Education Week
Glad to be part of a group of folks offering ideas and responses by video in Jonathan Worth’s fascinating experiment, “Speaking Openly,” a conversation that includes Cory Doctorow, Audrey Waters,...
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A MOOC on media and news literacy
Some news: We’re launching a MOOC — a massive open online course — on news and media literacy. The course (here’s the registration page) will be based on an online course I currently teach at Arizona...
View ArticleTrump, free speech, and why journalists must be activists
I was honored to keynote the Congrés de Periodistes de Catalunya in Barcelona last week, and this is an edited version of what I said: I’m glad to be here with you today in Barcelona. This is one of my...
View ArticleFacebook, Google, Twitter et al need to be champions for media literacy
Sorry, but I don’t want Facebook to be the arbiter of what’s true. Nor do I want Google — or Twitter or any other hyper-centralized technology platform — to be the arbiter of what’s true. But I’m glad...
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Can media/news literacy be universal? We’re going to try.
A few days after the 2016 national election, viewing what I believe was (and remains) an emergency situation, I urged the major technology companies to make media and news literacy part of their...
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News Literacy Working Group; Initial Thoughts
Can we make it un-cool to spread other people’s lies on social media? Should Facebook, Google, SnapChat, and Twitter embed tools of truth in their users’ feeds? Should journalists be vastly more...
View ArticleNews Co/Lab has new funding…
Yesterday we launched our new initiative at ASU’s Cronkite School, the News Co/Lab. In a post then I explained its genesis, initial funder, and first on-the-ground project, working with the McClatchy...
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