Media Literacy & the Pursuit of Virality - Why Certain Stories Go Viral and How They Influence Us
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of media literacy in an era dominated by virality and sensationalism in news reporting.
When everything is breaking news, NOTHING is breaking news. In an era of virality where legacy media is competing with podcasters, influencers, and content creators, journalism, accurate reporting, and unbiased news reporting are a thing of the past as everyone is chasing being first rather than correct. It is important now more than ever to develop your media literacy and this video discusses not only how but why this is so important.#medialiteracy #viral #media 0:41 media sensationalism is NOTHING new1:43 shifting media patterns2:35 media literacy3:19 echo chambers9:14 rage bait9:57 generational trends in media consumption14:10 the attack on media 16:05 what's the solution?25:34 in closing
People in this episode
Host: Sasha Whitney
Topics covered
- media literacy
- virality
- journalism
- media consumption
- echo chambers
- sensationalism
- generational trends
Keywords
- media literacy
- virality
- journalism
- echo chambers
- rage bait
- media consumption
- sensationalism
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: legacy media, podcasters, influencers, content creators, journalism, media
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