Disinformation Nation: Critical Media Literacy for Election 2024

Oct 7, 2024 | Events

Join media scholar Dr. Nolan Higdon and Distinguished Director of PCIM Professor Mickey Huff in conversation about the state of our free press, hyper-partisan media, and a distracted and divided public as we approach the 2024 election next month.

Tuesday, October 15, 12:10–1:10 p.m. in Textor 103, Ithaca College.

Free light refreshments provided!

Higdon and Huff will cover tips for spotting fake news and how to fight back against mis- and disinformation as well as how we can engage in constructive dialogue with those across political divides. The focus will be on using critical media literacy skills to deconstruct propaganda and work to build bridges, not walls, with members of our community in an effort to mitigate our differences and work toward positive, productive solutions for the challenges we face now and into the future. 

This event is co-sponsored by Project Look Sharp, Project Censored, and the Ithaca College Department of Journalism. 

Nolan Higdon is an author, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, Project Censored National Judge, and founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. Higdon’s areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, propaganda, and critical media literacy. Higdon’s work is available at Substack (https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the author of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (2019, with Mickey Huff); The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020); Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (2022, with Mickey Huff); The Media And Me: A Guide To Critical Media Literacy For Young People (2022, with Project Censored); and Surveillance Education: Navigating the conspicuous absence of privacy in schools (2024, with Allison Butler). Higdon is a regular source of expertise on media issues and current political events for CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.

 

Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Huff joined Ithaca College in fall 2024, where he now also serves as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media and Professor of Journalism at the Roy H. Park School of Communications. To date, he has co-edited sixteen editions of the Project’s yearbook. He is also the co-author, with Nolan Higdon, of Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (Routledge, 2022), a practical handbook on critical thinking and civil discourse; and United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America and What We Can Do About It (City Lights, 2019); as well as a co-author of The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People (The Censored Press/Triangle Square, 2022). His next book is Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025 (The Censored Press/Seven Stories Press, 2024), co-edited with Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth.