How do we become critical consumers of media? How does media hijack or amplify critical thinking? What do heuristics and confirmation bias have to do with this? In this episode, I explore the conditions for great or bad critical thinking and how media users can be more analytical about the information we consume. I talk about how political divisiveness in the U.S. is engineered by media masterminds and how digital literacy skills can help.

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References:

How Political Language is Engineered with Drew Westen and Frank Luntz on Your Undivided Attention by the Center for Humane Technology

www.humanetech.com/podcast/53-how-political-language-is-engineered

Techno-psychology by Erin Carmody

www.linkedin.com/pulse/techno-psychology-erin-carmody/

UNESCO Digital Literacy Skills Framework

https://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/ip51-global-framework-reference-digital-literacy-skills-2018-en.pdf

Seven Principles of Persuasion by Dr. Robert Cialdini

www.influenceatwork.com/7-principles-of-persuasion/

Cyber Civics

www.cybercivics.com

Center for Humane Technology

www.humanetech.com

All Tech is Human & Tech Stewardship https://alltechishuman.org/techstewardship

Reuters

www.reuters.com

Media Bias / Fact Check

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/