Abstract Despite the many positive effects of social media, the rise of extremist views and outrage culture and decline of Civil Discourse (CD) on many platforms have been a growing concern for decades. Conversation decorum and the ability to agree to disagree have been replaced with overconfidence, finger pointing, disinformation, cancel culture, gas lighting, and the … [Read more...] about Civil Discourse and Democracy: Unteaching Divisive Argumentation Through Critical Inquiry
Pedagogies for Critical Media Production and Disinformation Studies: A Taxonomy of Co-Literacies
Abstract This article presents a taxonomy for critical communication praxis in two pedagogical contexts, namely, Critical Media Production Literacy (CMPL) and Disinformation Literacy (DL), which are the foci of two courses that we teach. The rationale behind developing this taxonomy is to find the connections between the list of macro and micro literacies that we planned to … [Read more...] about Pedagogies for Critical Media Production and Disinformation Studies: A Taxonomy of Co-Literacies
