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• 1 2017-11-06T18:43:56-08:00 #7: skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracy 17 February 19, 2017 plain 2019-07-29T12:07:45-07:00 Today’s media consumer cannot trust the internet, its news, or networks—fake or otherwise. Given the wretched state of today’s internet, skeptical, self-aware interaction with digital data is a critical foundation for maintaining democracy.
  A self-aware attention to the current conditions of the internet must become a most important self-evident truth to move forward. A very serious project of digital media literacy is critical for our democracy, and is a crucial place where scholars and our students, regardless of our fields, can make pivotal contributions. As citizens, we need to understand how the internet works—technologically, financially, legally, socially. We scholars and educators need to teach and learn how to better read digital media, to understand who makes it, owns it, and circulates it. We need to ask how and why it is structured and visualized as it is, and what truths and mis-truths it states. We need to learn how and where to demand real and better news. We need to produce context for the rudderless fragments of information that circulate online, as well as the forums where we can share our findings, activities, and practices.
  More Reading:
  • “False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources,” by Melissa Zimdars
  • “A Comment on Learning: Media Literacy Practices in YouTube,” Eric M. Meyers, IJLM, 2014
  • Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies, Patricia Lange, Routledge, 2016
  • dmlhub.net
  • politicalbots.org

  To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

  Confidence, anxiety, alienated
• 1 2019-06-26T04:28:53-07:00 Confidence, anxiety, alienated 4 LaGCC gallery 2020-02-17T01:03:03-08:00 Stomach neck
  Confidence, anxiety, alienated. 
  Stomach neck
  Insecure excited
  Stomach neck
  Anxiety depressed.
  Stomach neck
  Depressed annoyed.
  Insecure anxiety.
  Joyous
  Frustrated.
  Pressure.
  Half-alive.
  Getaway stress.
  Confused targeted.
  Occupied.
  Less judgment.
  Open-mindedness.
  More connected
  More acceptance
  Less sensitive the world.
  The world.
  The government.
  More free peace. 
  I hope I can speak more.
  Understand each other better.
  I just want everyone to be successful.
  To move beyond the easy place. 
  Better listening.
  All humans enjoy respect.
  To make the world better for everyone.
  Happiness and peace.
  Free speech. 
  Peace.
  Snapchat. Instagram and snapchat.
  Cellphone. Instagram. My laptop.
  Instagram Facebook
  Youtube. Youtube.
  Wii chat Wii chat snapchat.
  Playstation 4. Laptop.
  Phone
  Book
  Cellphone phone all of those
  My surrounding
  Phone.
  Mouth feelings eyes. 
  Stomach stomach
  Brain heart forehead
  Ears eyes brain
  Heart hands wrist
  Sternum
  My throat
  Brain
  My head my heart
  My liver
  Arm.
  
  By LaGCC Group Poem

  This poem is a response to hardtruth #7:

  skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracy