International Council for Media Literacy

Bridging Academia to Action

International Council for Media Literacy
Bridging Academia to Action

Author Profile: Nicole A. Cooke

  • Nicole A. Cooke
    Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and a Professor
    University of South Carolina
    Nicole A. Cooke is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and a Professor at the University of South Carolina. Her research and teaching interests include human information behavior, critical cultural information studies, and diversity and social justice in librarianship. She was the 2019 Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Excellence in Teaching Award recipient and the 2021 MLK Social Justice Award presented by the University of South Carolina. She has edited and authored several books, including Information Services to Diverse Populations and Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-truth Era.

The Critical Cultural Literacy Model

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Abstract In 2021 I wrote the article "Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: Racism as a Form of Persistent Malinformation" for Project Information Literacy. The piece argues that information and media literacies (along with several other literacies) are needed to combat stereotypes, implicit biases, and racism, all of which are ultimately forms of misinformation, disinformation, and … [Read more...] about The Critical Cultural Literacy Model

The Journal of Media Literacy

The Colors of Disinformation: Disinformation and the Literacy Landscape

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Abstract We are now living in an age of “fake news,” which is not a new phenomenon, but its current iteration has highlighted the various dimensions of how people interact (or do not) with information - information consumption is so much more than people's immediate cognitive processing. This video essay will address some of the colloquial language that can be applied to … [Read more...] about The Colors of Disinformation: Disinformation and the Literacy Landscape

The Journal of Media Literacy