This webinar focuses on propaganda and the intersection of visual, media and news literacy skills essential to navigate the virtual environment for the upcoming election. Students will test their Propaganda IQ and learn how propaganda makers target us and what we can do to counteract it in campaign messaging. Facilitated by Jessi McCarthy, Freedom Forum, First Amendment Educational Content Manager.
This event is not open to the public.
A webinar facilitated by Jessi McCarthy, Freedom Forum, First Amendment Educational Content Manager.
Have you considered how your confirmation bias reinforces your existing beliefs? How can it trap you in an echo chamber and prevent you from considering other evidence and points of view? What about confirmation bias of media producers — news reporters, bloggers, social media influencers, and other user-generated content? How does their confirmation bias affect the news and information we read, watch and listen to in the digital culture? What can we do to counter confirmation bias?
This event is not open to the public.