by Ira Gorelick | Jun 7, 2023 | Media Literacy, Political Communication
Cal Thomas wrote a post, Trump Never Changes. In it, he provided a great list of bad things “Conservatives” say about Trump. Cal wrote, “People like me who rationalized that a vote for Trump was a vote for his policies and not his corrosive...
by admin@atlantislearning.net | Aug 11, 2022 | Cognitive Science, Collective Intelligence, Communication & Information Theory, Communication Economics, Decision Making, Digital, Entropy and Information, History of Communication, Information Analysis, Information Management, Media Literacy, Misinformation, Misinformation Effect, Persuasive Communication, Political Beliefs, Technology
The Social Dilemma is a 2020 American docudrama directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis Coombe, and Vickie Curtis. The main argument made is that Social Media is Bad. The main conclusion I came away with is that Advertiser Supported Media is...
by admin@atlantislearning.net | Jul 31, 2022 | Decision Making, History of Communication, History of Misinformation, Media Literacy, Misinformation, Overcoming Noise, Understanding Bias
A great discussion on the History of Health Misinformation can be found at “Coronavirus and the Black Death: spread of misinformation and xenophobia shows we haven’t learned from our past.” The history of Health Misinformation has more recent evidence in...
by admin@atlantislearning.net | Jun 12, 2022 | Media Literacy
Evidence of Trump’s Christian Support I came across this today. It is evidence of Trump’s Christian Support. The About Says, “Pro-Conservatism (Paleo), Pro-Comstitutionalism (Textual}, Pro-Christianity, Pro-Life, Pro-Family, Pro-America First,...
by admin@atlantislearning.net | Jun 7, 2022 | Featured Lesson, Media Literacy
5 Media Literacy Questions Media literacy expands traditional literacy, of reading and writing, to include other forms of communicating: art, entertainment, movies, photographs, news reports, documentaries, adverstising, websites, soical media, and propaganda. The...
by Ira Gorelick | May 5, 2022 | Media Literacy
To thrive in our 21st century hyper-connected digital world we need to use Media Literacy to Understand our world. A story came across my desk that is worthy of study. The headline was “Obamas under fire from the left for never-ending, sizzling ultra-luxury...
