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Dictionary of Numbers: browser extension humanizes the numbers on the Web
Dictionary of Numbers is a Chrome extension that watches your browsing activity for mentions of large numerical measurements and automatically inserts equivalences in real-world terms that are meant...
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Decoding NSA doublespeak
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Trevor Timm has a handy guide to decoding NSA doublespeak. The spookocracy has a pathetically transparent way of lying their way out of direct questions, but the...
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Media literacy show answers hard questions with Adbusters-inspired puppets
Gus writes, "When we created The Media Show (previously) decided the best way to teach about digital and media literacy was to answer the questions people were already asking Google, we didn't...
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Celebrate Media Literacy week all-year round with these fabulous resources
Gus writes, "November 2-6 was Media Literacy Week, that great traditional festival of questioning everything we read and talking back to the TV. OK, so it's only ten years old... and this is the first...
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Hacker puppets explore the relationship between carbon paper and copyright
Gus writes, "Remember carbon paper? You’re probably of a certain age if you can recall typing on a sandwich of two sheets of paper with a thin, grimy, black sheet between them to make copies." (more…)
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Hacker puppets explain how camera angles shape our perception
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoR-NMY-lCs Gus the hacker puppeteer (previously) writes, "Since The Media Show began, people have been asking us, 'What do hacking, digital literacy, and media...
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Australian library releases free, remixable webcomics maker
Australian libraries and games guy Matt Finch (previously) writes, "This year the Queensland State Library has designed and built a drag and drop comic maker for Fun Palaces and released the code on...
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Paul Verhoeven on media's normalization of fascism
LJ Frezza takes a loving look back at how Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers are wry commentaries on mass media's normalizing effect on sexism, militarism, climate change, corporatism, and...
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Cool animated overview of how media manufactures consent
Manufacturing Consent feels like a must-read all over again lately, and this excellent primer by animator Pierangelo Pirak lays out the five filters of the mass media machine. (more…)
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Amy Goodman narrates a gorgeous animation about Chomsky's "Manufacturing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M In this gorgeous video produced by Al Jazeera's media literacy show The Listening Post, Amy Goodman from Democracy Now narrates an explanation of the "5...
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Understanding ISIS's media strategy
Lawfare's Charlie Winter got ahold of a copy of Media Operative, ISIS's long-rumored, three-party guide to media strategy for jihadis; his fascinating account of the organization's media strategy is...
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A critical statistics education that fits on a postcard
Economist and maths communicator Tim Harford (previously) presents a riff on Harold Pollack's aphorism that "The best financial advice for most people would fit on an index card," and comes up with a...
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How denialists weaponize media literacy and what to do about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg danah boyd's SXSW Edu keynote, What Hath We Wrought? builds on her essay from 2017 about the relationship of media literacy education to the rise of...
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Data Defenders, a media literacy game about data collection and targeting for...
Mediasmarts (previously), a Canadian media literacy nonprofit, has just released Data Defenders, a timely video game about data collection and targeting aimed at kids in grades 4-6. (more…)
View Articledanah boyd explains the connection between the epistemological crisis and the...
Back in 2017, I started writing about the "epistemological crisis" ("we're not living through a crisis about what is true, we're living through a crisis about how we know whether something is true....
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The Mainstream Media is actually one event production company in Chicago
Who is the Mainstream Media? What is the Mainstream Media? This phrase is used and abused by everyone in own different ways — including by those who are most often accused of being the Mainstream...
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This video perfectly captures how websites manufacture outrage and turn it...
I hate how accurate this is.
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How Fox News controls the conversation at every midterm election
One of the contradictions at the heart of mass media journalism is the tension what people think they want to hear about, what's helpful for people to hear about, and what people actually pay attention...
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