An original version of this article was published in MxMIndia, a media news and opinion portal from Mumbai, India. My big takeaway from 2022 is that social media and pandemic have launched a joint and effective assault on classroom learning. When I look at some social media content from younger folks, I see so much creativity and social awareness, sensitivity and … [Read more...] about Machine Learning, But Are Classes Learning?
Media Literacy, Absence, Invisibility and Criticality
Abstract What makes media literacy a practice of critical thinking? This structural question is at the root of this paper. The need for media literacy to go beyond classrooms and address the immediacy of community needs is urgent. As awareness of the failings of media texts diffuses through our media prosumer societies, there are still no clear answers to what media illiteracy … [Read more...] about Media Literacy, Absence, Invisibility and Criticality
The Poison that Failed
So the poison pill did not work. The $44 billion Twitter deal is done, despite skepticism among critics whether Elon Musk could raise that kind of money to make the platform a private entity. And with the takeover of 15% of Twitter comes a barrage of fears from concerns over complete private control to private monopoly issues, from the impacts of the promised decontrol over … [Read more...] about The Poison that Failed
From practice to policy? What lies beneath
Can media literacy policy be developed to deliver social justice, to empower the most vulnerable subalterns so that they can feel represented? There are technological, ideological, and socio-political structures that govern media messages and this creates the paradox that media literacy cannot study what remains unarticulated. An upcoming virtual global summit holds the rich … [Read more...] about From practice to policy? What lies beneath