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Media & the Mind: Crash Course Media Literacy #4

You are constantly surrounded by media, so the question is: how does your brain handle all of that? The unfortunate answer is that our brains have a lot of processes that are not super helpful for media literacy, but hopefully, with a little self-awareness, we can work around that.

Resources:

  • How Americans get their news: http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/pathways-to-news/
  • Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?utm_term=.b7766c66870a