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Media Literacy Framework. For several decades in Australia, media educators have used a core concepts framework to design learning courses and materials.

Media Literacy Framework

However, this framework was created for an era of one-to-many media. How College Students Get Their News in 2019. In the world we live in, college students are surrounded by electronic media constantly – phones, television, iPads, computers.

How College Students Get Their News in 2019

The way people consume media and news stories is constantly changing as technology evolves. With the busy schedule college students tend to have, many probably don’t consume news through more classic news resources like news stations or newspapers. According to a survey done by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the American Press Institute, “only 39 percent of the survey respondents said they typically actively seek out news, while 60 percent said they mostly ’bump into’ that type of content as they do other things on Facebook and other sites.” News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017. As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media – with two-in-ten doing so often, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.

News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017

This is a modest increase since early 2016, when (during the height of the presidential primaries) 62% of U.S. adults reported getting news from social media. While a small increase overall, this growth is driven by more substantial increases among Americans who are older, less educated, and nonwhite. News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2018. Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as news source. Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions.

Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as news source

In 2017, the portion who got news via social media was about equal to the portion who got news from print newspapers. Social media’s small edge over print emerged after years of steady declines in newspaper circulation and modest increases in the portion of Americans who use social media, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted earlier this year. Overall, television is still the most popular platform for news consumption – even though its use has declined since 2016. Online news in the U.S.: Key facts. The digital news industry in the United States is facing a complex future.

Online news in the U.S.: Key facts

On one hand, a steadily growing portion of Americans are getting news through the internet, many U.S. adults get news on social media, and employment at digital-native outlets has increased. On the other, digital news has not been immune to issues affecting the broader media environment, including layoffs, made-up news and public distrust. As digital journalists gather for the Online News Association’s annual conference this week in New Orleans, here are some key findings about the way Americans get news online – as well as how digital newsrooms in the U.S. are faring, compiled from recent Pew Research Center surveys and analyses. 1The share of Americans who prefer to get their news online is growing. In 2018, 34% of U.S. adults said they preferred to get news online, whether through websites, apps or social media. 2Nearly as many Americans prefer to get their local news online as prefer the TV.

News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2018. News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2018. News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2018. Survey Young adults do consume news, in their own way. CHICAGO (AP) — Young adults have a reputation for being connected to one another and disconnected from the news.

Survey Young adults do consume news, in their own way

But a survey has found that mobile devices and social networking are keeping them more engaged with the broader world than previously thought. How College Students Get Their News in 2019. The shift in the American public’s political values. My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair. If Silicon Valley is the beast, then TED is its belly.

My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair

And on Monday, I entered it. The technology conference that has become a global media phenomenon with its short, punchy TED Talks that promote “Ideas Worth Spreading” is the closest thing that Silicon Valley has to a safe space. A safe space that was breached last week. A breach that I was not just there to witness, but that I actively participated in. I can’t claim either credit or responsibility – I didn’t invite myself to the conference, held annually in Vancouver, or programme my talk in a session called “Truth”. I did tell them that they had facilitated multiple crimes in the EU referendum. It was only later that I began to realise quite what TED had done: how, in this setting, with this crowd, it had committed the equivalent of inviting the fox into the henhouse.

I did. A room that fell silent when I ended and then erupted in whoops and cheers. Because it isn’t an exaggeration to say that TED is the holy temple of tech. Truth: Notes from Session 1 of TED2019. Poet and educator Sarah Kay encourages us to welcome the beauty of the universe, however it may appear.

Truth: Notes from Session 1 of TED2019

She speaks during Session 1 of TED2019: Bigger Than Us, on April 15, 2019 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. (Photo: Bret Hartman / TED) The world feels fragile these days, a bit wobbly. How do we figure out a way forward? Republican Strategist Frank Luntz on Toxic Politics. THESE ARE PEOPLE IN THEIR 70s AND IF THEY BEHAVE THAT WAY THEN DON'T YOU THINK IN THE PEOPLE IN THEIR 40s WILL FOLLOW THEM AND PEOPLE IN THEIR TEENS WILL FOLLOW THOSE?

Republican Strategist Frank Luntz on Toxic Politics

WE ACTUALLY HAD ONE AND HIS NAME IS JOHN McCAIN AND HE WANTED TO CHOOSE JOE LIEBERMAN. McCAIN, LIEBERMAN AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. McCAIN WAS DESTROYED AND WE TOLD HIM IT WOULD BLOCK YOUR NOMINATION IF YOU WOULD DO THIS AND WE WERE EVEN MORE HYPED UP AND MORE PARTISAN TODAY, AND YOU CAN'T WISH. How Twitter shapes global public conversation: Jack Dorsey at TED2019. Yeon-mi Park: The hopes of North Korea’s ‘Black Market Generation’ Meaning: Notes from Session 12 of TED2019. Eric Liu asks us to commit to being active citizens — wherever we are.

Meaning: Notes from Session 12 of TED2019

He speaks at TED2019: Bigger Than Us, on April 19, 2019, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED The final session of TED2019 was a spectacle. From powerful calls to civic engagement and ancestorship to stories of self and perseverance, the session wrapped an incredible week and soared through the end with an unforgettable, totally improvised wrap-up. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom eBook: Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers: Kindle Store. Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests. ALTENA, Germany — When you ask locals why Dirk Denkhaus, a young firefighter trainee who had been considered neither dangerous nor political, broke into the attic of a refugee group house and tried to set it on fire, they will list the familiar issues. This small riverside town is shrinking and its economy declining, they say, leaving young people bored and disillusioned.

Though most here supported the mayor’s decision to accept an extra allotment of refugees, some found the influx disorienting. Fringe politics are on the rise. But they’ll often mention another factor not typically associated with Germany’s spate of anti-refugee violence: Facebook. Everyone here has seen Facebook rumors portraying refugees as a threat. Many here suspected — and prosecutors would later argue, based on data seized from his phone — that Mr.

This may be more than speculation. Teaching Skepticism Where Gullibility Thrives - Luhtala - Google Slides. Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world. We were guaranteed a free press, We were not guaranteed a neutral or a true press. We can celebrate the journalistic freedom to publish without interference from the state. We can also celebrate our freedom to share multiple stories through multiple lenses. But it has always been up to the reader or viewer to make the reliability and credibility decisions. It is up to the reader or viewer to negotiate truth. Librarians can save democracy - Google Slides.