The purpose of this guide is to provide students with information about how misinformation and disinformation work in mainstream media and social media landscapes.
The content in this guide empowers students to identify misinformation and disinformation by:
Media literacy is the ability to
The messages, images, information, and experiences we engage with daily through media help shape our beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, values, and identity.
Media literacy empowers you to think critically about how you consume media.
In many ways, media literacy is a matter of consent because being media literate means that you take an active role in refusing or accepting the messages you engage in every day.
According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication
