Listening with Eli

Where do you get your facts? Is it form your local new station on Tv, is it from Instagram feed, or maybe you subscribe to an online newspaper that sends biweekly stories in your smart device. Regardless of the circumstance, you use these platforms to know what is going on outside your front door.

Here in this episode we will take a deep dive both the Mainstream and Social Media, knowing who makes the news, understanding the many sides of an argument, blocking out the “Us vs Them” mentality, helps you to distinguish the facts from the opinions and from the lies.

I invite you to take a look at our ongoing multimodal project tilted

Media literacy: Smelling the BS

Consuming knowledgeable content

Where do you get your facts? Is it form your local new station on Tv, is it from Instagram feed, or maybe you subscribe to an online newspaper that sends biweekly stories in your smart device. Regardless of the circumstance, you use these platforms to know what is going on outside your front door. 

Here in this episode we will take a deep dive both the Mainstream and Social Media, knowing who makes the news, understanding the many sides of an argument, blocking out the “Us vs Them” mentality, helps you to distinguish the facts from the opinions and from the lies.

I invite you to take a look at our ongoing multimodal project tilted

Media literacy: Smelling the BS

Consuming knowledgeable content

You probably heard the term "fake news" in your Instagram feed or "false advertising" in a YouTube video. Just one click in a what seemed to be harmless website could infect your computer with viruses or pop up ads. The person whom you might be friends in your chatroom may either a bot who wants to get your information or an actual person who masks their identity to hide their malicious intentions. How did we get here, how come a majority of the world wide web is entirely made of fake interactions?

Here in this episode we see the two large reasons why there is digital BS in the world-wide-web and provide a new way of thinking to combat fake news and false advertising out there.

I invite you to take a look at our ongoing multimodal project tilted

 Media literacy: Smelling the BS

The Smelly Dilemma of BS  

Media literacy is the ability to identify different types of media and understanding the messages they're sending. In the digital age, people can take in a huge amount of information from a wide array of sources, far beyond the traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines) of our parents' youth. Someone who is media literate can understand what is being said and how it affects the average person. They can read between the lines and can break down the important points of the text, while cutting out the fluff. So, do you want to be media literate?

Find out more in a ongoing project tilted 

Media literacy: Smelling the BS 

WHAT IS MEDIA LITERACY?

I want to tackle media literacy in the digital age. In a 2016 Stanford University study, 80 percent of middle schoolers couldn’t tell the difference between sponsored content and actual news stories1. This means that these when youngsters enter the university and soon the work force, they would consume misleading information that can impact. I would break down three sections, consuming knowledgeable content, awareness of rhetorical appeals in the message, and consumers becoming the producers in the digital conversation. Within these points, media literacy would empower younger audiences when consuming digital media.

The following is a sample of an educational program either done by podcast or video production.  This was inspired by a writing assignment from English Professor Vernon Dickson, in which he promoted each student to use creative means to explain the “Individual Definition” of Rhetoric. Elijah Pestana, is a broadcast media student in Florida International University, decided to incorporate his broadcast writing into explaining rhetoric in a educational and entertaining manner. The production begins with a sense of a radio personality selling rhetoric as a life changing tool, portraying a television advertisement. Then we are explained by the Speaker the origin of rhetoric and its benefits to both the communicator and the receiver within everyday life. The advertisement then ends with the speaker giving a fake phone number but promoting a informational website teaching rhetoric (Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (byu.edu)) to the viewer.

Presentation is written and produced by Elijah Pestana and is a work In progress.

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