
Fighting Misinformation
Digital Media Literacy
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Narrated by:
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Tara Susman-Peña
Americans spend hundreds, even thousands, of hours a week engaging with a wide range of media sources - TV, computers, tablets, radios, MP3 players, cell phones, newspapers, magazines, books, and more. Through these, we constantly access a wide range of platforms and media, from news to novels to Twitter feeds to email, and much more. Because we are continuously taking in information from a variety of sources, we are under constant threat from those who would intentionally (or accidentally) misinform - from foreign operatives, advertisers, politicians, and general scammers to our own friends and family. We all experience a near-constant barrage of incoming information. Combine that with the human brain’s reaction to stress or fear, and conditions are ripe for the spread of misinformation.
To better prepare you to defuse this threat, IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board) has teamed up with The Great Courses to provide a guide for navigating this tricky landscape with Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy, an eight-lecture course designed to arm you with the skills you need to be a savvy media consumer. Tara Susman-Peña, a senior technical advisor, and her colleagues at IREX, Mehri Druckman and Nina Oduro, will lead you step by step through the history, evolution, science, and impact of misinformation, helping you to develop the skills you need to combat fakes, stereotypes, and frauds within every kind of media source.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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They also point out the seemingly neutral tactic of advanced propaganda operators. The idea is that by promoting any and every form of extreme opinion the operators achieve a general destabilization. Methods like these use free speech to undermine democratic society.
This brief study is an easy quick way to learn a lot about the many forms of strong persuasion being used to undermine the happiness and security of ordinary people. The very powerful want your money and any power you have. They don't care about your happiness. Learning to not be influenced protects your own interests and happiness.
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The only people that would have a problem with the info in these lectures are people that have a set in stone outlook and consider objectivity as a threat.
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Technology doesn't help too because now these powerful entities can now simply get tech cos ban or deboost anyone that disagrees with.
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