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[[Image:Fake-news-handbook.png|600px|thumb|right|[http://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumer-handbook-fake-news-edition/]]
 
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=DIGITAL ENGagement Conference=
 
=DIGITAL ENGagement Conference=
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<h1>LINKS:<br><BR>
<h1>LINK: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MVZEkrkdKJ-eHDjzV2hABdafM-prA_ct_qjbcLHcTQ/edit <b>DISCUSSION AGENDA</b>]</H1>
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[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_MVZEkrkdKJ-eHDjzV2hABdafM-prA_ct_qjbcLHcTQ/edit <b>SUMMARY WRAPUPS, MAY 5, 2017</b>]<br><BR>
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[http://newshare.com/fakenews/cuny-brooklyn-fake-news-05-05-17.mp3 AUDIO OF WRAPUP SESSION, MAY 5, 2017]<BR>
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<h4>Center for Worker Education--CUNY / 25 Broadway / New York N.Y.<br>
 
<h4>Center for Worker Education--CUNY / 25 Broadway / New York N.Y.<br>
 
Sponsored by the M.S. program in Media Studies at Brooklyn College</h4>
 
Sponsored by the M.S. program in Media Studies at Brooklyn College</h4>
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<li>Hoax/Parody/Satire [for the purpose of cultural criticism or creative expression]
 
<li>Hoax/Parody/Satire [for the purpose of cultural criticism or creative expression]
 
<li>Errors in Journalism/Partisanship [for the purpose of informing and engaging the public]
 
<li>Errors in Journalism/Partisanship [for the purpose of informing and engaging the public]
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<li>Part of challenge is accepting that we need "thought leaders"
 
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=<b>Other updates since Feb. 4</b>=
 
=<b>Other updates since Feb. 4</b>=
 
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<li>REPORT: [https://shorensteincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Combating-Fake-News-Agenda-for-Research.pdf "Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action"] | Harvard Univ., May 2017
 
<li>[https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/business/europe-election-fake-news.html As Europe Heads to the Polls, Tech Tackles Fake News] | NYTimes, May 2, 2017
 
<li>[https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/business/europe-election-fake-news.html As Europe Heads to the Polls, Tech Tackles Fake News] | NYTimes, May 2, 2017
 
<li>[https://www.cjr.org/criticism/fake_news_trump_white_house_cnn.php Has Donald Trump killed the term 'fake news'?] (Columbia Journalism Review)
 
<li>[https://www.cjr.org/criticism/fake_news_trump_white_house_cnn.php Has Donald Trump killed the term 'fake news'?] (Columbia Journalism Review)
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=<b>What do we mean by 'fake news'?"</b>=
 
=<b>What do we mean by 'fake news'?"</b>=
 
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<li>"Yellow", fabricated, made  up facts
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<li>Or ... news you don't agree with? (Trump)
 
<li>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/business/media/medias-next-challenge-overcoming-the-threat-of-fake-news.html NYTIMES: Media's next challenge -- overcoming the thread of fake news]<BR>
 
<li>[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/business/media/medias-next-challenge-overcoming-the-threat-of-fake-news.html NYTIMES: Media's next challenge -- overcoming the thread of fake news]<BR>
 
<big>EXCERPT: “It’s the biggest crisis facing our democracy, the failing business model of real journalism,” Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri and a longtime critic of fake news, told me on Saturday. Ms. McCaskill said that “journalism is partly to blame” for being slow to adjust as the internet turned its business model upside down and social media opened the competitive floodgates. “Fake news got way out ahead of them,” she said.</big>
 
<big>EXCERPT: “It’s the biggest crisis facing our democracy, the failing business model of real journalism,” Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri and a longtime critic of fake news, told me on Saturday. Ms. McCaskill said that “journalism is partly to blame” for being slow to adjust as the internet turned its business model upside down and social media opened the competitive floodgates. “Fake news got way out ahead of them,” she said.</big>
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<h2>"Fake news" -- A metaphor for all that ails our media ecosystem?</h2>
 
<h2>"Fake news" -- A metaphor for all that ails our media ecosystem?</h2>
 
<ul><ul><li>Lack of facts / alternate facts
 
<ul><ul><li>Lack of facts / alternate facts
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<li>"Yellow journalism"? / made up facts
 
<li>A partisan intent to mislead through hoaxes
 
<li>A partisan intent to mislead through hoaxes
 
<li>Comedy, satire masquerading as real  
 
<li>Comedy, satire masquerading as real  
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<li>Do we need a new paradigm for trusted information? (See: [https://informationtrust.wordpress.com/mission/ infotrust.org)]<BR>
 
<li>Do we need a new paradigm for trusted information? (See: [https://informationtrust.wordpress.com/mission/ infotrust.org)]<BR>
 
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=POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:=
 
=POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:=
 
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<li>[https://firstdraftnews.com/ FirstDraft News: "Navigating the digital information ecosystem"] | includes CrossCheckNewsroom
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<li>Requires media-literacy education
<li>[http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/ Fake News Challenge: Exploring how artificial intelligence might combat fake news]
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<li>Focus ln reception as much or more than transmission
<li>[https://www.wikitribune.com/ WikiTribune: A new initiative by WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales to combine community/professional journalism]
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<li>A key is how you define trust
<LI>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rcWBVN8mC3rRTIT3SpxHUU51dMfT5GLgiarmmTfJaFM/edit the 21st Century Journalism Code project]
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<li>Time to redefine journalism?
<li>[http://www.pcmag.com/news/353106/craigslist-founder-craig-newmark-has-a-plan-to-save-journali CraigsList founder has a plan to save journalism] |
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<li>Value the influence of human editors/curators, collaborators
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<li>FRAMING: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-retire-the-tainted-term-fake-news/2017/01/06/a5a7516c-d375-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: "It's time to (just) retire the tainted term "fake news"] | Jan. 8, 2017
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<li>FACK CHECKING: [https://firstdraftnews.com/ FirstDraft News: "Navigating the digital information ecosystem"] | includes CrossCheckNewsroom
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<li>TECHNOLOGY: [http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/ Fake News Challenge: Exploring how artificial intelligence might combat fake news]
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<li>COMMUNITY COLLABORATION: [https://www.wikitribune.com/ WikiTribune: A new initiative by WikiPedia founder Jimmy Wales to combine community/professional journalism]
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<LI>RE-DEFINING JOURNALISM: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rcWBVN8mC3rRTIT3SpxHUU51dMfT5GLgiarmmTfJaFM/edit the 21st Century Journalism Code project]
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<li>TRUST ARBITRATION: [https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/2017/04/announcing-the-new-integrity-initiative/News Integrity Initiative] | [http://www.pcmag.com/news/353106/craigslist-founder-craig-newmark-has-a-plan-to-save-journali CraigsList founder has a plan to save journalism] |
 
  [http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/1/11/craig-newmark-philanthropy-journalism CRAIG NEWMARK: I'm joining the fight against fake news" -- Inside Philanthropy]
 
  [http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/1/11/craig-newmark-philanthropy-journalism CRAIG NEWMARK: I'm joining the fight against fake news" -- Inside Philanthropy]
<li>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-retire-the-tainted-term-fake-news/2017/01/06/a5a7516c-d375-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post: "It's time to (just) retire the tainted term "fake news"] | Jan. 8, 2017
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<li>LIBRARIES: [https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/12/27/fighting-fake-news/ How libraries can lead the way] | American Libraries Magazine
<li>[https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/12/27/fighting-fake-news/ How libraries can lead the way] | American Libraries Magazine
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<li>EDUCATORS: [http://youthtoday.org/2017/01/media-literacy-help-youth-think-critically-in-age-of-fake-news/ Helping Youth Think Critically in an Age of Fake News] | Youth Today (online)
<li>[http://youthtoday.org/2017/01/media-literacy-help-youth-think-critically-in-age-of-fake-news/ Helping Youth Think Critically in an Age of Fake News] | Youth Today (online)
 
 
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Also see: [https://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49409 Frank Romano] (RIT emeritus) published, 1990 in TypeWorld: [http://newshare.com/images/romano.jpg "We are the Press"]
 
Also see: [https://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=49409 Frank Romano] (RIT emeritus) published, 1990 in TypeWorld: [http://newshare.com/images/romano.jpg "We are the Press"]
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Fry's key points?
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<li>News is now a verb
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<li>Participatory nature of news now most important part of conversation
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<li>How is news shaped?
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<li>Little distinction between audience and creators?
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Butler's key points?
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<li>Slow down / think befoe passing along
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<li>Get behind the scenes
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<li>A discusion of power, political economy, social justice leads to partisanship question
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<li>Librarians are hungry for help to play a role
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<li>Not about answering all questions but about having the right questions to ask
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==RESOURCES==
 
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Latest revision as of 02:47, 7 May 2017

DIGITAL ENGagement Conference

LINKS:

SUMMARY WRAPUPS, MAY 5, 2017

AUDIO OF WRAPUP SESSION, MAY 5, 2017

Center for Worker Education--CUNY / 25 Broadway / New York N.Y.
Sponsored by the M.S. program in Media Studies at Brooklyn College

(This page also linked from: http://tinyurl.com/ccsu-fake-news

This is a update of a page (SEE ORIGINAL) first created for a breakout session of the Northeast Media Literacy Conference: The Past, Present and Future of Media Literacy Education held on Sat., Feb. 4, 2017 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn. You can listen to AUDIO of Fake News plenary on Feb. 4. You can also view Notes of plenary-session discussion as well as Notes of subsequent breakout sessions. The session in Connecticut was called: Defining the Fake News Moment: Fiction, Fad, Fatal or Media Lit Opportunity?. Participants were Katherine Fry, Allison Butler, Mellisa Zimdars and Bill Densmore.

The situation

In the last seven months, our political discourse has been infected by a new term: “Fake News.” In a 70-minute, circle-round session, we’ll probe the limits of what the term might mean, and how it might be an opportunity to mainstream media-literacy education. We’ll drive toward a consensus statement, addressing such questions as: How do current concepts of “fake” news differ from what was published by 18th-century pamphleteers, or 1960s supermarket tabloids? Is news “fake” based on point of view only, or because it reports as facts things that are demonstrably untrue? Is it only “fake” if its intention is to mislead? Who defines “mislead?” In an age when all of us can be reporters via our Facebook feed, do we all need tutoring on how to create — and consume — trustworthy reporting and information? In social media, is news now anything more than verified gossip? Who is the trusted verifier? Our “conversation catalysts” will start the discussion, then we’ll invite all to to participate.

Three types of fake news?

Three types of Fake News according to Renee Hobbs (March 10, 2017):