Fighting misinformation : digital media literacy.

Format:

Video disc

Title:

Fighting misinformation : digital media literacy.

ISBN:

9781629978154

Publication:

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2020]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 73 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Series title(s):

Great courses (DVD).

General Note:

Title from disc label.

"Course No. 5043"--Container

8 lectures (30 minutes each).

Contents:

The misinformation threat -- The evolution of media and misinformation -- Misinformation and the brain -- Seeing through visual misinformation -- Countering fakes and stereotypes in media -- Journalistic verification skills -- Assessing science and health news -- Technology, misinformation, and the future.

Summary:

"Learn how to reduce the threat of misinformation from local, national, and international sources and ensure the validity of the information you share."--Container

Subject(s):

Fake news.

Media literacy.

Information literacy.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Added Author:

Susman-Peña, Tara

Druckman, Mehri

Oduro, Nina

Added Corporate Author:

Teaching Company,

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Summary

The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) provides an outstanding eight-lecture series designed to arm viewers with the very skills needed to defuse the threat of misinformation media. Ms. Tara Susman-Peña and her colleagues at IREX, Mehri Druckman and Nina Odura, will lead viewers step by step through the history, evolution, science, and impact of misinformation in an eight-lecture course that helps viewers to develop the skills they need to combat fakes, stereotypes, and frauds.