Renee Hobbs Professor of Communication Studies Director, Media Education Lab University of Rhode Island USA @reneehobbs Exploring the Links between Media Literacy, Propaganda BRUSSELS 10-11 March 16
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Renee HobbsProfessor of Communication StudiesDirector, Media Education LabUniversity of Rhode Island USA@reneehobbs
Exploring the Links between Media Literacy, Propaganda and Radicalization
BRUSSELS 10-11 March 16
PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING Today’s Goals
Define radicalization in the context of media literacy education
Consider the power of virality in the spread of propaganda
Tour the “Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda” website
Overview learning principles embedded in the design
Discuss the challenges & opportunities of teaching about contemporary propaganda
Suffragette (2015)
RADICALIZATIO
N
1. Personal grievances or need for adventure
2. Sense of righteousness about the cause
3. Feelings of personal & political empowerment
4. Active participation in social networks5. High levels of poverty &
unemployment
RADICALIZATIO
N
ACCESS
expanding the concept of literacy
VIRALITY
when information, an image or video gets circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to
another
30-minute documentary was viewed 112 million times in just 7 days
between March 6 – 12, 2012
VIRALITY
VIRALITY
LEGITIM
ATING
SOU
RCES
LEGITIM
ATING
SOU
RCES
New Propaganda
Social Sharing
New Propaganda
Content Marketing
PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING Design Principles
People learn through exploration, browsing & pattern recognition
Making judgments about the relative benefits/harms of media messages requires consideration of text, author, purpose, audience and context
Exposure to diverse interpretations heightens awareness & stimulates intellectual curiosity New forms of propaganda – virality & content marketing – are unfamiliar to many people
Dialogue about propaganda is sensitive and requires high levels of trust & respect
Perhaps the “almost true” is potent precisely because the audience has to bridge the gap of truth and in so doing become complicit in its viral spreading.
--Anthony Wing Kosner
What are the opportunities and
challenges?
PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING Today’s Goals
Define radicalization in the context of media literacy education
Consider the power of virality in the spread of propaganda
Tour the “Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda” website
Overview learning principles embedded in the design
Discuss the challenges & opportunities of teaching about contemporary propaganda
Educators and learners both
benefit from the process of critically
analyzing contemporary propaganda
Educators and learners contribute
to the public sphere in ways that
strengthen citizenship & the
democratic process
Renee HobbsProfessor of Communication StudiesDirector, Media Education LabUniversity of Rhode Island USATwitter: @reneehobbsEmail: [email protected]
Exploring the Links between Media Literacy, Propaganda and Radicalization
BRUSSELS 10-11 March 16
Renee Hobbs@reneehobbs
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