January 30, 2024
Filmmakers use immersive storytelling to produce intense thoughts and emotions in the viewer. Journeys in Film uses this powerful medium as a springboard for meaningful dialogue around humanity’s most pressing issues.
October 5, 2022
This report is intended to give an overview of the state of media literacy and media literacy education in an era where the feld is fnally coming out of the shadows and taking its place as an important global discipline. Because media literacy addresses cognitive processing
November 24, 2021
Youth are often confronted with biased media representations that can impact how they see themselves and others. Students confront these media representations at a crucial point in their adolescent development, when they are gaining self-efcacy and making decisions that afect their future selves. Far too many youth in the U.S. do not have the tools to make sense of media content and the biases embedded in it. This is especially true now, when lines are increasingly blurred between entertainment, news, advertising, and social media. And rarely are youth encouraged to bridge in-class learning with their personal time spent with media technologies and online content.
March 26, 2021
Gallup and Knight polled more than 20,000 U.S. adults and found continued pessimism and further partisan entrenchment about how the news media delivers on its democratic mandate for factual, trustworthy information. Many Americans feel the media’s critical roles of informing and holding those in power accountable
are compromised by increasing bias.
March 26, 2021
Institute Montaigne investigated whether a similar phenomenon was at work in France. To this end, it led an in-depth study in partnership with the Sciences Po Médialab, the Sciences Po School of Journalism as well as the MIT Center for Civic Media. It also benefited from data collected and analyzed by the Pew Research Center*, in their report News Media Attitudes in France.
March 26, 2021
This report is part of a series by the Pew Research Center aimed at understanding the nature and
scope of political polarization in the American public, and how it interrelates with government, society and people’s personal lives.
August 4, 2020
Computational propaganda – the use of algorithms, automation, and big data to shape public life – is becoming a pervasive and ubiquitous part of everyday life.
Over the past three years, we have monitored the global organization of social media manipulation by governments and political parties. Our 2019 report analyses the trends of computational propaganda and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources.
July 22, 2020
The intention of this Media Literacy in Early Childhood Report is to utilize media literacy, child development, and early education knowledge to develop educational materials and
advocate for support for media literacy education in early childhood.
November 14, 2019
In November 2016, the Stanford History Education Group released a study showing that young people lacked basic skills of digital evaluation. Since then, a whole host of efforts—including legislative initiatives in 18 states—have sought to address this problem.
July 22, 2010
Written by Renee Hobbs, this report offers a plan of action for how to bring digital and media literacy education into formal and informal settings through a community education movement. The report defines digital and media literacy as a constellation of life skills that are necessary for full participation in our media-saturated, information-rich society.