Digital Health and Connection: How Media Literacy Can Bridge Divides
This media literacy webinar was originally presented on December 2, 2021 by Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC and PEN America. Featured speakers include Cookie Duong, Dr. Rupali Limaye, Damaso Reyes, and Hannah Waltz.
Information voids, lack of regulation, and existing distrust can offer easy inroads for disinformation to infiltrate group chats and newsfeeds, forcing readers to fill in the gaps for themselves. Moreover, non-English language sites largely do not receive the fact-checking treatment that national news outlets do, so communities that rely on ethnic media in other languages for their news are consistently short-changed.
In this 75-minute session, we’ll discuss the misinformation landscape and the best practices for keeping AAPI communities healthy and accurately informed:
How misinformation can target and spread within AAPI communities and messaging apps, and pit different communities of color against each other
The role that historical traumas, institutional distrust, and emotions can play in the proliferation of disinformation
Proactive strategies for intergenerational communication within family units about misleading online content
Tools and techniques to source accurate information, read beyond the headlines, spot doctored images, and verify content online in different languages
The importance of uplifting community journalists as trusted messengers who understand their readers’ experience
