Media Literacy

Media Literacy is at the core of the Electronic Media & Broadcasting program at NKU. We focus on making media that expresses our common truths.

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

Agenda setting: not telling you what to think, but providing the topics and sometimes the lens through which to think and talk about those topics.

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Agenda-setting: All three broadcast morning shows referring to the situation at the border as a "crisis."

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

Journalism instructors—this is a very good tweet to talk about how our implicit blindness shapes how we tell stories and who we center in them. A good start for a discussion of why? Why does the subject of the ENTIRE STORY not deserve the photo? How was this decision made?

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

This, exactly.

Point of view on a story. Who you quote. Who you ascribe certain motivations to.

All in the hands of journalists. Who could do so much better. And frequently fail.

What was that about objectivity again?

[U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @uspresstracker]

After video emerges of police in Minneapolis slashing the tires of journalists, State Patrol and Anoka County deputies admit it was them. https://t.co/8F4qooHXWh

[U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @uspresstracker]

The @uspresstracker is documenting press freedom violations from protests across the nation. If you are a journalist — or know of one — who has been assaulted, arrested or had equipment seized or damaged in the course of covering a protest, DM or email [email protected]

[Timothy Burke @bubbaprog]

Police literally opening fire on the free press.

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

Steak-umm speaks media literacy truth.

[Steak-umm @steak_umm]

friendly reminder in times of uncertainty and misinformation: anecdotes are not data. (good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomization

[NAMLE @MediaLiteracyEd]

We couldn’t agree more, @AttorneyNora! Media literacy skills are essential. Thanks to our partners @PENamerica for helping us make #medialiteracy a priority.

[NAMLE @MediaLiteracyEd]

Keep your hands and your feeds clean. #medialiteracy #covid19

[TVMoJoe @TVMoJoe]

The Fox Broadcasting Co. is currently giving the likely GOP nominee for president airtime to just slander prominent Democrats running against him, with zero pushback from Hannity. It’s basically a campaign donation from Murdoch.

[91.7 WVXU @917wvxu]

The first-ever National #NewsLiteracyWeek, presented by @EWScrippsCO and the @NewsLitProject, ends today, but its tools and resources to help discern facts from misinformation will continue to be available.

Learn how to get engaged: https://t.co/N13AdQ0Qdg.

[Adam Jentleson @AJentleson]

PSA: it’s 2019. There is no excuse for reporters and editors not to have a professional level of awareness of how readers consume news. If you don’t put pivotal information - like the fact that the $2M was over 30 years - in the headline and tweet, you’re misleading readers.

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

This. This may be the biggest crisis in our democracy. (And we would venture to guess that students may actually be better than other demographics at this.) https://t.co/iNhsewN0sz

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

Something most of us should take a look at, regardless of any upcoming election. https://t.co/MMhZYpOdQF

[Chris Strobel @chrisatnku]

The tools keep getting smaller and more affordable. What story are you going to tell? https://t.co/FyertzPyNs

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

A great look at what makes something “normal” and who gets included, especially in tech. Spoiler: those kept “outside” are usually women and people of color.

[OneZero @ozm]

In 1972, a photo of Lena Söderberg ran as the centerfold in an issue of Playboy.

The following year, engineers at USC used the picture to test a new piece of image-compression software. It worked.

Decades later, the "Lena" image has persisted in labs. https://t.co/YMEBqKVrJC

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

Small mistakes can have larger impacts. Two people, same name, different influences. This error was quickly corrected, but the graphic exists and the visual association lives on the interwebs. Is ⁦@Mediaite⁩ (and are we) right to share the image? https://t.co/VEu720KDRx

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

While this whole meme is cute, hopefully the dad would actually acknowledge the important work that a journalist does, and that getting a second source is vital to ferreting out truth. Plus, not everyone needs to be a doctor. (I’m reading too much into it, aren’t it?)

[Lil Uzi Hurt 🥺 @lostblackboy]

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?

Dad: *nudging me* that should've been you

Me: Not now Dad

Dad: Not asking for a journalist to help, are they?

Me: Dad, there's a medical emergency happening right now

Dad: Go and see if “finding a second source" helps

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

Just a quick correction that altering video to change the meaning of an event is NOT what they do in sports. Or news. But apparently it is now supposed to be OK in politics. (Hint: it’s not.) As many will only read the headline, the tweet should not infer this lie is true.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Kellyanne Conway on Acosta video: "That’s not altered. That’s sped up. They do it all the time in sports." https://t.co/zunRq8hj0x

[Media Literacy @medialiteracy]

Past @nytimes reporting has shown that if this "tight-knit, godly family" used the name Allah instead of God this headline and the article's tone would be vastly different. Perspective is one thing, but bias has no place in real journalism. https://t.co/DueHUHOE6e

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The Austin bombing suspect was a quiet, “nerdy” young man who came from a “tight-knit, godly family,” said Donna Sebastian Harp, who had known the family for nearly 18 years https://t.co/psiAniAMuK