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Do you know what circular reporting, critical consuming, critical ign
Objective:
Do you know what circular reporting, critical consuming, critical ignoring, confirmation bias, filter bubbles, motivated reasoning, and unconscious bias are? They’re all ways we create or deal with information that does or does not align with our knowledge about the world. What about pink slime, deep fakes vs. cheap fakes, Liar’s Dividend, and Zombie claims? In this exercise, you will explore how to critically analyze images and facts to determine truth.
Skills:
Critical thinking
Evaluate the influence of context and assumptions on a problem or issue.
Formulate and support conclusions about a problem or issue.
Assess the implications and consequences of conclusions.
Background:
The United Nations sees media literacy for all as a human right (Fig. 1):
Source: Five Laws of Media & Information Literacy
Information accountability is at the heart of media literacy. The questions that journalists use to determ
ine what’s “news” also can help information consumers determine the provenance or accuracy and authority of the texts and images they encounter in news and entertainment or social media:
Who is behind the information?
What evidence is used to support the information’s claims?
What do other sources say?
You might apply the CRAAP test, an acronym for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose, developed at California State University, Chico. Alternatively, you could try the SIFT & PICK test, which involves lateral reading to evaluate what other sources say about the information you are reviewing and examining the source itself. UNESCO recommends asking questions that will help you to determine:
Proximity: How close is the evidence to the phenomenon?
Expertise: What credentials indicate the quality of the producer of the evidence?
Rigor: How was the evidence collected?
Transparency: What do you know about the evidence?
Reliability: Is there a track record to evaluate? (Ireton & Posetti, 2018)
Activity:
After studying the assigned readings for Week 3, especially Modules 4 & 5 in the UNESCO handbook, build your media forensics skills by completing ONE of the following quizzes:
https://spotthetroll.org
Find the fake quiz