Critical Media Literacy

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• Americans on Cancel Culture (PEW Research Center, May 19, 2021)

• Cambridge Analytica Files: A year-long investigation into Facebook, data, and influencing elections in the digital age (The Guardian) 

• Columnist on technology (Geoffrey Fowler, The Washington Post)

• Data for Black Lives (Yeshimabeit Milner, Lucas Mason-Brown, Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Tawana Petty, Akina (Aki) Younge, Paul Watkins) 

• Ever wonder what kind of men harass women online? Researchers found out. Just in case you needed another reason to not be a sore loser (Wagatwe Wanjuki, UpWorthy, July 27, 2015)

• Games and Online Harassment Hotline 

• Giphy. Find & Make Gifs. 

• The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Disinformation (Computational Propaganda Research Project, Oxford)

• How much of the Internet Is fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually (Max Read, New York Magazine, Dec 26, 2018) 

• Human Rights Racial Equality & New Information Technologies: Mapping the Structural Threats (UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, June, 2020) 

• Instagram art project spreads awareness about femicides in Mexico (Paola Mardo, The World, March 2, 2018) 

• The internet, but not as we know it: Life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia (Michael Safi, Lily Kuo, Ed Augustin, & Andrew Roth, The Guardian, Jan 11, 2019)

• A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World: Search Atlas displays three sets of links—or images—from different countries for any search (Tom Simonite, WIRED, July 11, 2021)

• A 'political hit job'? Why the alt-right is accusing big tech of censorship (Jason Wilson, The Guardian, March 4, 2018) 

• Propaganda Critic (Aaron Delwiche & Mary Margaret Herring, Aug 10, 2018)

• Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence (Nick Hopkins, The Guardian, May 21, 2017)

• A Scholar's Guide to Google (Harvard Library, June 8, 2017) 

• Sometimes Google can be bad for learning history (Peter A Shulman, Twitter, Feb 22, 2017)

• SoundClowns (ViceNews)

Surveillance giants: How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights (Amnesty International, 2019) 

• TikTok's "Be Informed" series stars TikTok creators to educate users about media literacy (Stephanie Hind & Tara Wadhwa, TikTok: Newsroom, July 16, 2020)

• When seeing is no longer believing: Inside the Pentagon’s race against deep fake videos (CNN Business, 2019)

• You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die (Oscar Schwartz, The Guardian, Nov 12, 2018)

• Social media can inflame your emotions - and it's a byproduct of its design (8 min. podcast on NPR, Sept. 6, 2022, Ari Shapiro interviews Max Fisher). 

• DALL-E 2 (A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.)

• A People's Guide to Finding Algorithmic Bias (Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies)

• Echo chambers: How they are created and how to avoid them (Story Pennock, Poynter, May 5, 2023)