Tag: extremists

The Case for Quarantining

The Case for Quarantining Digitally Lit #262 – 10/3/2020 Welcome back to Digitally Literate and issue #262. This week I worked on the following: Become a Digitally Literate Educator – I’m building up an open, online course for educators in Pre-K up through higher ed that want to be digitally literate in teaching, learning, &…

The oxygen of amplification

Report on Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators by Whitney Phillips. The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online draws on in-depth interviews by scholar Whitney Phillips to showcase how news media was hijacked from 2016 to 2018 to amplify the messages of hate groups. The Oxygen of…