Curriculum, Foundations & Reading: Faculty Publications

Critical Media Literacy in the Time of Lies

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

…

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

Copyright

This work is archived and distributed under the repository's Standard Copyright and Reuse License (opens in new tab). End users may copy, store, and distribute this work without restriction. For all other uses, permission must be obtained from the copyright owners or their authorized agents.

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS