U.S. Media Literacy Week

Assessing Reliability for Others: Conversation with a NewsGuard Analyst
2025-10-29 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Anyone who’s assessed the reliability of a news source knows how difficult it can be. Now try doing it across thousands of news sources. Think it can be done consistently and transparently? Join us for this rare and very candid conversation with NewsGuard Analyst Sofia Rubinson, senior editor of NewsGuard’s Reality Check newsletter. As a global leader in assessing information reliability, NewsGuard has a heavy weight on its shoulders. Let’s peel back the curtain and learn all about their processes and the many challenges they face to maintain trust and confidence in the service they provide.

Navigating Misinformation Today
2025-10-29 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
Join us for an exploration of misinformation and disinformation in the digital age. Our panelists will decode the tactics used to manipulate and divide us, and how we can take productive steps to counter them. You’ll leave with practical tools for navigating today’s information landscape with confidence.
Register here: https://bit.ly/DemocracyHappyHour

Preparing Middle Schoolers for the Ups and Downs of Smartphones and Social Media with Jennifer Berger of Ready Set Screen
2025-10-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual Event, Anywhere, Canada
This eye-opening presentation challenges the usual assumptions about how teens and kids can be safe, smart, and healthy in the digital age — and what media literacy is — and illuminates what kids actually need to thrive online. Drawing from 16+ years of classroom experience with more than 10,000 teens and two years of surveying and interviewing parents and their kids, Jennifer Berger offers a unique perspective as a community educator who witnessed media literacy education transform students. This isn’t another doom-and-gloom talk about social media dangers. Instead, you’ll learn how libraries, schools, and families can fill the critical gap in media literacy education, moving from awareness to meaningful action. Here’s the link to join!

Influence, Authenticity, and a Gendered Algorithm
2025-10-29 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Cedar Crest College, Miller Family Building, Allentown, PA, 18103, United States
Social media promises visibility and connection, yet these systems amplify some voices while silencing others. In this Media Literacy Week lecture, Dr. Elizabeth R. Ortiz ’01 explores how digital platforms reward certain performances of femininity and “authenticity” while constraining how women and other marginalized creators show up, speak out, and share their lives online. She invites us to see media literacy as a way to resist, redefine, and reclaim visibility in these systems built to keep us scrolling.
