Plus: Hard Fork is building a 'better' social network and film students can't sit through films anymore. Here's what I read and thought about this month.
Thank you for this incredibly thoughtful curation, Jena. I especially appreciated your opening reflections on our changing relationship with tragedy and the blurring lines between witness and participant. It’s a vital conversation for our time.
I am also deeply grateful for your kind words about my essay. As an educator and researcher, seeing how my work resonates with your own lived experience as an Asian-American means the world to me.
Looking forward to more of your brilliant insights this year ❤️
Hi Sarah! Thanks so much -- and noted! Loving the pieces in your newsletter, and your focus on public health. Coming from the information literacy space, I also view information equity and trust as part of public health.
Excellent look at how we absorb and ignore important events and how little we often know about them. We've been manipulated so much by the media and social media that we don't know what to believe anymore...so we get lazy and just believe it all.
Thank you! Your point is so true about how we're becoming quicker to believe and trust things online. Research shows us that people now trust familiarity and personal relatability over credentials and traditional authority. It's quite a shift!
Thank you for this incredibly thoughtful curation, Jena. I especially appreciated your opening reflections on our changing relationship with tragedy and the blurring lines between witness and participant. It’s a vital conversation for our time.
I am also deeply grateful for your kind words about my essay. As an educator and researcher, seeing how my work resonates with your own lived experience as an Asian-American means the world to me.
Looking forward to more of your brilliant insights this year ❤️
Thank you so much, Jiwon! I'm so happy to have found your writing and newsletter. I feel like I could pick your brain for hours :-)
Jenna, haha thank you. I’m so happy I found your writing and newsletter too ❤️
And truly, as a media literacy educator and researcher, I’m grateful for the work you’re doing and the questions you’re asking!
It really matters. ❤️
I love this concept. I'd like to participate in the next installment of the next issue! So many good points highlighted in this piece.
Hi Sarah! Thanks so much -- and noted! Loving the pieces in your newsletter, and your focus on public health. Coming from the information literacy space, I also view information equity and trust as part of public health.
Thank you for the support! Excited to collaborate on the next issue :)
Excellent look at how we absorb and ignore important events and how little we often know about them. We've been manipulated so much by the media and social media that we don't know what to believe anymore...so we get lazy and just believe it all.
Thank you! Your point is so true about how we're becoming quicker to believe and trust things online. Research shows us that people now trust familiarity and personal relatability over credentials and traditional authority. It's quite a shift!