The Feed Effect: How Your Online World is Built for You

How much of your online world is actually shaped by you? And how much is being shaped for you?

During U.S. Media Literacy Week, NAMLE’s Youth Advisory Council will lead a high school class through The Feed Effect: How Your Online World Is Built for You, an interactive exploration of how our online behavior, data, algorithms, and personalized feeds are all connected.

Led by students, for students, this session will help participants think more critically about their digital experiences, ask better questions about how their feeds are built, and consider how they can make more informed choices about the media they encounter online.

Decoding Your Feed: The Difference Between News and Content

Journalism is what happens before you see the content: reporting, verification, editing, legal review, and corrections. Anyone can post, but journalism makes sure that what you see is accurate, credible, and fair. In this Media Literacy Week program, 7th and 8th graders learn to distinguish journalism from content that feels like “news” by hearing from Reuters staff about how they research, analyze, and distribute information.

UnMuted: Amplify Youth Summit

Welcome to UnMuted

The mic is on. You in? 🎤✨

Three days. Less adult noise, more youth-driven solutions. We’re kicking off U.S. Media Literacy Week by bringing together the bold young leaders rewriting the script on digital wellbeing. The future is being shaped right now, and we’re turning the volume all the way up.

We’re excited to announce the second annual UnMuted Amplify Youth Summit hosted by the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, NAMLE, and the McGee Applied Research Center for Narrative Studies taking place from October 22-25 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

We’re building on the incredible momentum of our inaugural summit by bringing together young people (ages 14-22) from around the US, industry leaders, nonprofits, and researchers for honest dialogue, collaborative problem-solving, and action around digital wellbeing.

Through interactive experiences designed for and with youth, participants will help shape real solutions, co-creating pathways toward healthier digital spaces while building the agency, tools, and connections needed to thrive both online and off.

Focus Up: AI, Media, and the Battle for Attention

As the information ecosystem becomes more complex, blurred lines between fact and fiction pose new challenges to credibility, trust, and informed civic engagement. As part of the 11th Annual Media Literacy Week, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and Thomson Reuters are partnering for a half-day event that will delve into the intersection of credibility and the attention economy, examining how speed, virality, and believability collide to create new vulnerabilities in how young people consume media.