Critical Media Literacy in the Time of Lies

Authors

William M. Reynolds, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow
Bradley Porfilio, Seattle UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-3-2019

Publication Title

The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy

DOI

10.1163/25900110-00101012

ISSN

2590-0102

Abstract

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and the truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end – is being destroyed.

arendt, 1973, p. 14

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But most people use social media not to unite, not to open their horizons wider, but on the contrary, to cut themselves a comfort zone where

Recommended Citation

Reynolds, William M., Bradley Porfilio. 2019. "Critical Media Literacy in the Time of Lies." The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy, 1 (1): 1-5: Brill. doi: 10.1163/25900110-00101012
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/curriculum-facpubs/259