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Renee Hobbs
Professor of Communication Studies
Director, Media Education Lab
University of Rhode Island USA
@reneehobbs
Exploring the Links between
Media Literacy, Propaganda
and Radicalization
BRUSSELS 10-11 March 16
PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING
Today’s Goals
Define radicalization in the context of media literacy education
Consider the power of virality in the spread of propaganda
Tour the “Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda” website
Overview learning principles embedded in the design
Discuss the challenges & opportunities of teaching about contemporary propaganda
Suffragette (2015)
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1. Personal grievances or need for adventure
2. Sense of righteousness about the cause
3. Feelings of personal & political
empowerment
4. Active participation in social networks
5. High levels of poverty & unemployment
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ACCESS
expanding the concept of literacy
VIRALITY
when information, an image or video
gets circulated rapidly and widely from
one Internet user to another
30-minute documentary was viewed
112 million times in just 7 days between
March 6 – 12, 2012
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New
Propaganda
Social Sharing
New
Propaganda
Content
Marketing
PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARINGDesign Principles
People learn through exploration, browsing & pattern recognition
Making judgments about the relative benefits/harms of media messages
requires consideration of text, author, purpose, audience and context
Exposure to diverse interpretations heightens awareness & stimulates
intellectual curiosity
New forms of propaganda – virality & content marketing – are unfamiliar
to many people
Dialogue about propaganda is sensitive and requires high levels of trust
& respect
Perhaps the “almost true” is
potent precisely because the
audience has to bridge the gap
of truth and in so doing
become complicit in its viral
spreading.
--Anthony Wing Kosner
What are the opportunities
and challenges?
PEER-TO-PEER FILE SHARING
Today’s Goals
Define radicalization in the context of media literacy education
Consider the power of virality in the spread of propaganda
Tour the “Mind Over Media: Analyzing Contemporary Propaganda” website
Overview learning principles embedded in the design
Discuss the challenges & opportunities of teaching about contemporary propaganda
Educators and learners
both benefit from the
process of critically
analyzing
contemporary
propaganda
Educators and learners
contribute to the public
sphere in ways that
strengthen citizenship
& the democratic
process
Renee Hobbs
Professor of Communication Studies
Director, Media Education Lab
University of Rhode Island USA
Twitter: @reneehobbs
Email: [email protected]
Exploring the Links between
Media Literacy, Propaganda
and Radicalization
BRUSSELS 10-11 March 16
Renee Hobbs
@reneehobbs