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Mindfulness, Media, & Misinformation in the Digital Era: Program

Symposium Information

Symposium Program - Friday, September 13, 2019

8:30am - Registration check-in begins (outside Kresge Auditorium, Library building)

  • Light refreshments served from 8:30 to ~11:00am (Upper Alumni Hall, Library building)

9:00 to 9:30am - Welcoming remarks (Kresge Auditorium)

  • Mark Canada, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Indiana University Kokomo
  • Paul Cook & Polly Boruff-Jones, Symposium organizers
  • Felice Nudelman, Executive Director for the American Democracy Project, American Association of State Colleges and Universities
    • With introduction by William McKinney, Senior Advisor for Regional Campus Affairs, Indiana University

9:45 to 10:45am - Breakout session 1 

  • Kate Holvoet, Chris Werry, and Rebecca Nowicki, “The Internet Says the Darndest Things: A Textbook and a Toolkit for Fighting Fake News” (San Diego State University) in KC 130-AC
  • Derek Malone and Robert Koch, “Teaching Digital Information Literacy with Logical Fallacy Instruction” (University of North Alabama and Merrimack College) in KC 130-B

11:00am to 12:00pm - Breakout session 2 

  • Kelly Blewett, KT Lowe, and Eleni Siatra, “On a Scale of One to Check: Cross-divisional Approaches to Academic Information Literacy” (Indiana University East) in KC 130-AC
  • Jessie Long and Jennifer Hicks, “You Won't Believe this Headline (Spoiler, You Shouldn’t): Teaching Students about Misleading, Misused, and Manipulated Titles and Images in “Fake” News” (Miami University) and Jessica Hagman, “Who's Truth? Countering the Post-Truth Panic” (Ohio University) in KC 130-B
  • Mark Canada and Christina Downey, “Mind over Chatter” (Indiana University Kokomo) in ILC #1 (KA 144)

12:00 to 2:00pm - Lunch (Lower Alumni Hall)

  • 12:45 to 1:45pm - Keynote, Michael Caulfield 

2:00 to 3:00pm - Breakout session 3

  • Mary Le Rouge, “How Memes Rhetorically Pose Environmental Debate” (Kent State University) and Ashlee Shoaff, “​Embracing the Eco-Mindset: Navigating Memetic Transference and the Ego Economy in the Digital Age” (Western High School) in KC 130-AC
  • KT Lowe, “Whose Misunderstanding: An Approach to Improving Information Literacy by Community Methods” (Indiana University East) in KC 130-B
  • Yan He and Todd Bradley, “Countering Digital Polarization: Teaching College Students Web Literacy using “Four Moves and a Habit” (Indiana University Kokomo) in ILC #1 (KA 144)

3:15 to 4:30pm - Workshop with Michael Caulfield for all attendees (Kresge Auditorium)

5:00 to 7:30pm - Post-Symposium reception and networking (Tin Man Brewing, 500 N Buckeye St A, Kokomo, IN 46901)  

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