“Fake It 2 Make It”: Using CMLE to Fight “Fake News,” Challenge “Conspiracy Theory,” Scrape “SCADs,” and Produce Independent News in our Digital Age
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Rob Williams is the founding president of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME), and teaches a wide variety of media, communications, journalism, history, environmental policy and global studies courses at the University of Vermont and Champlain College. He is the co-editor of Media Education for a Digital Generation (Routledge, 2016) and Most Likely To Secede (Vermont Independence Press, 2012), as well as a wide variety of CMLE-focused chapters and articles.
Type of Presentation
Individual presentation
Brief Description of Presentation
Our hands-on, multimedia, participatory workshop will consider definitions of “fake” versus “real” news, update the Hermann/Chomsky “Propaganda Model of News” for the digital age by adding five new filters to the epistemological mix, and explore our syllabus for a new UVM course entitled “Critical Thinking About Conspiracy Theory,” which blends CMLE, history, politics in an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs).
Abstract of Proposal
See above - presentation.
Start Date
2-23-2018 2:45 PM
End Date
2-23-2018 3:45 PM
Recommended Citation
Williams, Rob Dr., "“Fake It 2 Make It”: Using CMLE to Fight “Fake News,” Challenge “Conspiracy Theory,” Scrape “SCADs,” and Produce Independent News in our Digital Age" (2018). International Critical Media Literacy Conference. 48.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/criticalmedialiteracy/2018/2018/48
“Fake It 2 Make It”: Using CMLE to Fight “Fake News,” Challenge “Conspiracy Theory,” Scrape “SCADs,” and Produce Independent News in our Digital Age
See above - presentation.
