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11. Navigating this Pandemic - Digital Literacy and the Spread of Misinformation WISEST STEM Podcast
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It has been over two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked students what their concerns are at this stage of the pandemic, and we received responses ranging from student mental health to how to listen to and talk to people with differing views, to how to navigate these times of uncertainty and also how to recognize fake news on social media especially around public health measures, vaccine information and of COVID prognoses. With this episode, we’re launching a new mini-series to dive into a few of the topics of concern shared by our students.
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Veena Netrakanti, a physician who is currently contracted by Google Health to support Google in prioritizing medically sound information on the search engine regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares tips and tricks for how we can cultivate a more critical lens in how we approach information shared online, and how we can ensure that we don’t feed into the spread of misinformation.
Want to find out more about WISEST? Connect with us on social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter - @WISESTUAlberta) or subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter (https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/E376A85886885DB9). Have a question? Email us at wisest.outreach@ualberta.ca. If you enjoyed this episode, we’d love it if you could like, share and subscribe to our podcast! It helps us spread the word and helps us understand what kind of content you like, so we can create more of it!
Produced and edited by Clara Vicera and Helen Yip.
It has been over two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked students what their concerns are at this stage of the pandemic, and we received responses ranging from student mental health to how to listen to and talk to people with differing views, to how to navigate these times of uncertainty and also how to recognize fake news on social media especially around public health measures, vaccine information and of COVID prognoses. With this episode, we’re launching a new mini-series to dive into a few of the topics of concern shared by our students.
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Veena Netrakanti, a physician who is currently contracted by Google Health to support Google in prioritizing medically sound information on the search engine regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares tips and tricks for how we can cultivate a more critical lens in how we approach information shared online, and how we can ensure that we don’t feed into the spread of misinformation.
Want to find out more about WISEST? Connect with us on social media (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter - @WISESTUAlberta) or subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter (https://confirmsubscription.com/h/d/E376A85886885DB9). Have a question? Email us at wisest.outreach@ualberta.ca. If you enjoyed this episode, we’d love it if you could like, share and subscribe to our podcast! It helps us spread the word and helps us understand what kind of content you like, so we can create more of it!
Produced and edited by Clara Vicera and Helen Yip.
32 min
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