Monthly Update
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January 2020
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Meet Our New Program Assistant:
Kyle Plantz
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Last year NAMLE embarked on a search for our third full-time employee, a new Program Assistant. After sorting through an amazingly talented pool of applicants, we are excited to announce Kyle Plantz will be joining the NAMLE team this month!
Kyle is coming to us from
Science News
, a nonprofit magazine covering advances in science, medicine and technology, where he served as the Editorial Assistant. While at Science News, Kyle helped launch
The Transparency Project
, an experiment created in partnership with
News Co/Lab
at Arizona State University. To read Kyle's full bio, click
here
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Kyle will be assisting us with the day-to-day operations, communication, events, and overall support as we scale during this exciting time of growth at NAMLE!
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Media Literacy in the News
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“In today’s political climate, teaching kids
civics and news literacy is vital”
This article in the
Chicago Tribune
outlines how a lack of basic civic knowledge leads to emotional responses when discussing politics in America. The author suggests cross-curricular teaching in both civics and digital literacy to provide students with the tools necessary to engage in civil political discourse in online environments.
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“Wild West: Firms interpret California’s privacy law as they see fit”
This article from Politico reflects on how companies, big and small, are attempting to deal with the requirements of California’s new Consumer Privacy Act, providing insight into how similar laws might affect consumers in other states in the future. The law has now been in effect for a few weeks, giving residents the right to know what information companies collect about them and some measure of control over that data, however, enforcement will not begin until the summer of 2020.
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EDC Talks: Media Literacy in the Spotlight
Tony Streit, who
leads the
National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE) for Education Development Center (EDC) and also serves as
NAMLE's Board president,
spoke to EDC about the importance of media literacy education in youth media making. [
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M-Passioned: Meet Our Members
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Alexis Romero Walker
PhD Student
School of Journalism and Media
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
"Media literacy is of vital importance to me because fictional media have created a standard of how minority communities should be perceived. Women are represented as fragile and sexual, the Latin(x) community has been represented as dangerous and “illegal”, the black community has been represented as dangerous and prisoners, the LGBTQ community has been represented as flamboyant and overbearing, etc. These stereotypes have been repeated so many times that people often believe that these communities of people are one dimensional in negative ways. I don’t think people realize the effect of fictional media, and I’m excited that conversation has started in hopes of developing more empathetic and true to life stories about diverse communities. "
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Kidscreen Summit
Miami, FL
Feb 10-13
Communicating Diversity Conference
Texas A&M University
Mar 26-27
Broadcast Education Association Convention (BEA) 2020
Las Vegas, NV
Apr 18-21
What Is Information?
University of Oregon
Portland, OR
Apr 30 - May 2
Media & Learning 2020
Leuven, Belgium
Jun 17-18
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CFP:
What is Information
Conference
The tenth annual
What is…?
conference at the University of Oregon examines tapestries, temperaments, and topologies of information lenses and practices.
What is Information?
(2020) will investigate conceptualizations and implementations of information via material, representational, and hybrid frames. The conference will take place in Portland, Oregon from April 30 through May 2, 2020. Submission deadline: Jan 24 [
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First Draft News:
Live Disinformation Simulations
Over the next 12 months, First Draft will conduct 14 live simulation events across the US that will immerse journalists in a disinformation crisis scenario. First Draft is working in tandem with technology platforms and community leaders to focus the simulations and will hold two major summits to help coordinate strategies for how to respond to disinformation crises.
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Do you have event or other organizational information you would like included in our Monthly Update?
Email us
with the subject "Update."
Next submission deadline:
February 7, 2020
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Reuters and Facebook Journalism Project Create E-Learning Course on Deepfakes
Multimedia news publisher Reuters teamed up with the Facebook Journalism Project on an e-learning course aimed at helping newsrooms more easily detect deepfakes and manipulated media. This course draws on Reuters’ expertise to show readers real examples, hypothetical cases and insight into the evolving technology used to create and detect manipulations – including the new threat of "deepfakes."
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Report:
What People Want to Know About the News
As part of five focus groups at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas in Austin, researchers set out to determine what readers don’t understand about the news process and to show newsrooms how they can build trust by addressing common reader concerns. The study found readers wanted newsrooms to do a better job of digging deeper into stories, explaining terminology, clarifying why certain voices were included in stories and others were left out, and avoiding what readers perceived as journalists’ biased depiction of sources. [
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Free Download:
10 Reasons Why Media Education Matters Poster
Download this free, full-color poster that displays media statistics from the Media Education Foundation. Hang it in your classroom or your office to remind everyone to think critically about media. [
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Report:
Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms
Grounded in knowledge gained from Project Information Literacy’s decade of large-scale studies on how college students find and use information for course work and in their personal lives, and more recently, on the interplay of journalism, new platforms, and trust in media, this research report calls on educators to embrace the challenge of understanding new forms and channels of information beyond academia. The report includes a set of recommendations for librarians, educators, and journalists that work where information and young adults intersect. [
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Executive Director
Michelle Ciulla Lipkin
Associate Director
Donnell Probst
Executive Board
Tony Streit, President
David Kleeman, Vice President
Kimberley Moffitt, Secretary
Gonca Latif-Schmitt, Treasurer
Erin Reilly, Past President
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Administrative Operations Coordinator, Project Look Sharp
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY
Baltics Media Literacy Curriculum and Training Experts (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
IREX
Riga, Latvia
Field Coordinator -
News Literacy and Digital Storytelling
Montana Media Lab
Missoula, MT
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