I've published a few papers on media literacy games, and recently decided to build an updated one myself. It's a simulated group chat where you learn how to debunk misinformation shared by friends and family. Here's a draft of the title screen. What do you think?
I've built several interactive tools lately, but this will probably be the last one for a while. My goal was to turn the major lessons from my book into hands-on experiences, including how our social worlds shape our beliefs, the importance of critical ignoring, and media & digital literacy.
Another draft of a potential title screen. This one seems cleaner to me, but the one below is more what the actual game will look like.
Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3Â billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3Â billion in net losses.
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Link to study (pre-print, not yet peer-reviewed)
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When AI helps refine or expand ideas they've already generated themselves, they maintain a stronger sense of authorship, competence, and meaning while still benefiting from the technology.
New study finds people who are more open-minded and more knowledgeable about how news media work are better at telling plausible conspiracies from implausible ones, whereas people with a strong conspiracy mentality are more likely to believe conspiracy theories regardless of the evidence.
Digital media literacy interventions improved participants’ media literacy knowledge, but only those engaged through community organizations became better at distinguishing true from false online news. impact.stanford.edu/article/buil...
