Mindfulness, Media, & Misinformation in the Digital Era
Friday, September 13, 2019
Indiana University Kokomo
2300 S. Washington St.
Kokomo, Indiana
Twitter: @3mSymposium
Keynote speaker: Michael Caulfield, Director of Blended and Networked Learning, Washington State University, and author of Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Special guest: Felice Nudelman, Executive Director of The American Democracy Project, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
“Falsehood is the essence of all media, extending mankind’s natural inclination to myth-making.” – Marshall McLuhan
This symposium seeks to bring together a diverse group of scholars, teachers, and thinkers from around the state of Indiana and beyond to discuss pedagogical strategies and solutions to help today’s college students cope with “network propaganda” of all kinds. In an increasingly complex, fast-moving, and confusing digital media environment rife with problematic information (mis- and disinformation, propaganda, so-called “fake news,” pseudo-science, manipulation, etc.), what are our responsibilities as teachers and literacy advocates? How might we reconceptualize our roles against a societal backdrop of declining trust in professions and institutions?