Critical Consumption Media Psyched

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/