The Action Coalition for Media Education is excited to be co-sponsoring the International Critical Media Literacy Conference in Savannah for the second year in a row. Following on last year’s success, the event has been expanded to two full days of workshops, panel presentations, and roundtables. We hope you will join us for ICMLC 2019…
by Bill Yousman, Ph.D. Fake news! The accusations are flying from both left and right. Liberals decry social media stories that led people to believe the most absurd lies about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign season. Meanwhile, President Trump and his staff and supporters use the term like a weapon against any news outlet…
by Rob Williams The Action Coalition for Media Education’s leadership and network turned out in force for the revival of the one-day Northeast Media Literacy Conference (#NMLC) at Central Connecticut State University on February 4. Dr. Lori Bindig Yousman, ACME secretary and founder of Sacred Heart University’s Media Literacy and Digital Culture (MLDC) graduate program,…
by Bill Yousman Among my friends and colleagues who do media studies and media activism there is a split on how to think about the newfound attention to so-called “fake news.” This reminds me of debates about subliminal advertising years ago. Some insisted that it was real and pervasive; others pointed to empirical studies that…
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