by Emily T. Metzgar | 28 Dec 2017 | Indiana University
Media outlets in the U.S., usually dismissive of unidentified aerial phenomenon, have suddenly changed their tone. I’m not saying it’s aliens, but … Michael Savage, 15-year-old son of a prominent San Bernardino physician and surgeon, was practicing...
by Nelson Graves | 17 Aug 2017 | News Decoder Updates
News-Decoder brings together youth and experience to shine a light on the world’s most pressing problems and to create a distinctive learning dynamic. News-Decoder brings together youth and experience to shine a light on some of the world’s most pressing...
by Nelson Graves | 14 Mar 2017 | Journalism, Media Literacy
This is the first in a series of News-Decoder articles on fake news. By Nelson Graves What is fake news? How does it spread? What can we do about it? News-Decoder has been working with students around the world to address these questions, which have acquired urgency...
by Nelson Graves | 17 Feb 2017 | Journalism, Media Literacy, Technology
Increasingly we are living in media silos that divide us from large numbers of fellow citizens. Here are some tricks for bursting your media bubble. Worried about alternative facts? Try entering an alternative universe. Like it or not, each of us lives in a media...
by Emily T. Metzgar | 15 Feb 2017 | Journalism, Media Literacy, United States
Is Donald Trump’s administration straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”? Or is the U.S. mainstream media in an anti-Trump frenzy? The logo of Ingsoc, the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in George...