The Media and Us: Concluding Roundtable - Putting Knowledge Into Action!

City Lights in conjunction with Project Censored and the Media Revolution Collective present

Concluding Roundtable—What You Can Do! Putting Knowledge into Action!

The Media and Us concludes with a resource guide that showcases critical media literacy education resources as a call to action. The authors review ten things anyone can do to develop more mindful media use and consumption habits, discuss solutions journalism, and call for more student involvement in media creation. They encourage teachers to develop a more student-centered curriculum that addresses representation, access, and power while reminding them to always look beneath the surface, beyond the screens, to a brighter, more inclusive future.

with The Project Censored Media Revolution Collective

This event is part of the day-long symposium style event The Media and Us: Critical Media Literacy and Engaged Politics comprised of seven sessions aimed to explore critical media literacy.

At a time when pundits and politicians alike promote fearful understandings of “fake news” and the negative impacts of social media, this symposium aims to provide participants with the skills to resist the lures of sensational disinformation and omnipresent advertising. Drawing on their decades of teaching experience, the speakers will introduce key ideas to critical media literacy, urging us to look beneath the surface and beyond the screens in order to create an honest, accurate, brighter, and more inclusive future. With engaging hands-on exercises readers learn to question, critique, and talk back to biased messaging, both subtle and overt, that the media feed them daily. Critical media literacy becomes a call to action, urging all of us to engage with the media landscape and become a well-informed citizenry.

All sessions are free but require registration. Visit the City Lights event calendar at this link to learn more: https://citylights.com/events/

This event has been made possible by the support of the City Lights Foundation. To learn more visit: https://citylights.com/foundation/