I. POLITICAL LITERACY/MEDIA LITERACY
A. POLITICAL LITERACY
1. Theories
2. Approaches
3. Analysis/Output
B. MEDIA LITERACY
1. Sources-Outlets-Processes of Dissemination
2. Problem is the Deluge
3. Then There is the Manipulation
4. And the Distrust: Those Who Warn About “Fake News” Are Spreading Fake News
5. Authenticity and Thus Authority Are No Longer Based on Reliable “Fact”
C. MEDIA EXPOSURE IS NOT MEDIA LITERACY
D. SO HOW TO TAKE CONTROL?
1. Recognition
a. Outlets — Position, Agenda, and Bias
b. Sources for Outlets
c. Networks and Dissemination
2. Go Outside the Echo Chamber — Contexts
Contexts of Media, Contexts of Events
II. FAKE NEWS IS *NOT* NEW — THE MEDIA TECHNOLOGY IS
A. Propaganda-Disinformation-Misinformation-Psychological Warfare-Information Warfare
B. Much of This is Organized
C. But Much of This is Individual
D. Faster, Wider, and With More Impact
E. An “Inverse McLuhan”
III. CONTEXTS OF MEDIA
Thoreau: “Our inventions are want to be pretty toys, which distract us from serious things. They are an improved means to an unimproved end.”
A. Print-Radio-Film-TV-Digital
B. Linear (“Magic Bullet”) Becomes 3-D?
C. The Paradox of “Melting” Private-Public Boundaries
D. Fragmentation — But Then Consensus Around Spectacle
E. The View of the Spectacle Becomes the Starting Point — From Hearst to Trump
IV. POST-SCRIPT: US v. UK v. THE WORLD
