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"Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, debates about fake news have appeared regularly in entertainment, politics, and news media. While many agree on the dangers associated with fake news, there is no consensus around the definition of the phenomenon, and its origins are loosely attributed to a variety of practices and technologies. Much of the discourse has focused on proposing solutions, with media literacy being one of the most frequently mentioned. However, Nolan Higdon argues that critical media literacy pedagogy will be unsuccessful without a comprehensive understanding of fake news. The Anatomy of Fake News offers the first examination of fake news for the purpose of creating effective critical news literacy. Higdon employs a critical-historical media ecosystems approach to identify the producers, themes, purposes, and influences of fake news and incorporates his findings into an invaluable fake news detection kit. This much-needed resource provides a rich history of fake news and a promising set of pedagogical strategies for mitigating its pernicious influence"--

Matthew Potolsky's brilliantly woven The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy offers a powerful and engaging discussion of national security and government secrecy. His findings concerning the influence artists have on citizens' perception of national security is a major contribution to the field. It highlights Americans false sense of awareness regarding government secrecy, that in itself enables government secrecy. Potolsky has made a massive contribution to the study of government secrecy that is sure to spark future research concerning the intersection of national security and aesthetics.

Activism by U.S. millennials, such as the March for Our Lives, Occupy, and Black Lives Matter, has reversed a national decline in civic engagement. Much of the scholarship has focused on how, not why, millennials participate in activism. This qualitative study of 121 purposely sampled millennial participants seeks to identify the origins of millennial activism. This study operates from a generational lens. Interviews of each participant from 2015-2017 went through two cycles of coding to reveal five progenitors of millennial activism: Family and Friends, Institutions and Organizations, Encounters with Activism, Media and Popular Culture, and Hate and Harm. The study recommends that educators synthesize the progenitors of millennial activism into effective civic engagement pedagogy.

"The recent upsurge in censorship is a global phenomenon taking many forms across the media spectrum as well as in schools, universities and public spaces. Physical assaults against and legal restrictions on journalists, writers, intellectuals, scholars, artists and students are on the rise in a number of countries. Writers and scholars have been jailed. Publications and websites have been closed. Political elites and their allies have seized control over academic institutions of all kinds. Whole topics-queer sexuality, gender identity, critical race theory, state violence and militarism, government corruption, financial crimes, environmental degradation-have been excluded from public discourse either by governing elites or powerful corporations. Censorship, Digital Media and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression gathers a series of experts to document, analyze and evaluate the contemporary phenomenon of censorship in digital spaces as well as in print, visual and legacy media. It details the many places and situations where freedom of speech and expression are currently under attack, both on and off-line, in the United States and around the world. It examines the methods and tactics of censorship used by governments, businesses and pressure groups to shut down expression they disdain. We argue that censorship and the loss of free speech is part of a growing anti-democratic movement with grave implications for civil society, human rights and global democracy. Ultimately, with the suppression of dialogue and discourse, fact and documentation, witness and evaluation, the world becomes a much more dangerous place, driven by misinformation and false narratives in counties subject to human rights abuses, and much more. With the incarceration of journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as the world watches, exposing government corruption and brutality has become far more dangerous. Journalists continue to be penalized, incarcerated and killed. From the simple dissemination of information to the suppression of educational materials, and the prosecution of individuals for speech and expression, public discourse has become far more dangerous. For example, in Eastern Europe, the banning of programs in Gender Studies has criminalized education, and in Russia women face prison for disseminating images of body positivity that include drawings of vaginas. In Hungary, artists and playwrights are under attack. Dictators around the globe have shut down, monopolized and otherwise instituted measures to control information, as they lie and mislead their own citizens. India, Egypt, Brazil and Turkey are notable for their attacks on universities, the internet, the news media, social media and civil liberties. This volume also addressed the ways in which critical media literacy and activists can respond to the global crackdown. It investigates the complications brought about by media convergence in the 21st century. We argue that allowing high-tech surveillance and censorship of the internet carries with it far too many negative consequences for freedom of expression and that in many cases, measures attempting to halt fake news as currently formulated will lead inevitably to more censorship. We propose policy alternatives; from economic restructuring of media, to global agreements that cover freedom of the press, to educational strategies aimed at creating a vibrant public citizenry able to take on the challenges of preserving global freedom of expression"--

Introduction : we the people must become we the media / Steve Gennaro, Nolan Higdon, and Michael Hoechsmann -- 25 years of critical media literacy : what mattered then & what matters now in higher education / Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon -- Social justice is not possible without critical media literacy / Emil Marmol -- Finding the 'edu' in educommunicación : in search of praxis in teacher education / Helen DeWaard -- Preparatory courses for graduate programs and digital literacy during the Covid-19 pandemic / Renata Nascimento da Silva, Jose Messias -- Radical education and the abolitionist university / Jordan Harper and Jessica Hatrick -- The Peruvian university : will new models emerge from post-pandemic uncertainty? / María-Teresa Quiroz-Velasco, Julio-César Mateus -- Rethinking disorder : social struggles, direct action, and critical pedagogy / Robert F. Carley -- Exploiting the news to make change : a dynamic model of media environments as landscape for understanding and participating in the digital environment / Katherine G. Fry -- Critical media literacy and the university as medium : a reflexive social epistemology / William J. White -- Reclaiming media education for the environment : a case for critical ecomedia literacy in professional journalism schools / Rachel Guldin, Carl Bybee -- The anthropocene's epistemic enclosure : utilizing ecomedia literacy to revive the knowledge commons / Antonio Lopez -- Rethinking curriculums : how critical digital literacy and mandatory composition courses collide / Sydney Sullivan -- Theory as a 'healing place' : critical literacy, media production, and minoritized students / Katherine M. Bell -- Teaching podcasting in ethnic studies classrooms : the Alchemist Manifesto podcast, digital literacy pedagogies and lessons from student projects in and beyond the global pandemic / Daniel Topete, Mario Alberto Obando -- Scratching the surface : how Facebook Journalism Project undermines journalistic integrity and critical media literacy? / Siho Nam -- Augusto Boal's theater of the oppressed as a vehicle to promote critical media literacy / Miguel Gutiérrez -- "I should not have to take a class that is so harmfully liberal again" : radical democracy and preparing transformative teachers / Danielle T. Ligocki -- The road ahead : empowering critical thinkers and digital citizens / Steve Gennaro, Nolan Higdon and Michael Hoechsmann.