YouTube and the Death of Media Literacy

Sign up to Milanote for free with no time-limit: https://milanote.com/zoebee Media literacy is dead. ...or so I thought. Come with me as I recount how I spent months of my life trying to understand media literacy, along with lots of help from my friends. It's a big one. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 01:42 - Stuff is complicated 12:37 - Figuring it out 24:01 - Systems suck 44:37 - What you can do 58:30 - What can I do? 01:18:41 - Outro, Bloopers & Extras SOURCES: ------ “Media Literacy in the Modern Age” by Cynthia Vinney, PhD on verywellmind (https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-media-literacy-5214468) ------ “The Current State of Media & Children” by MediaLiteracyNow (https://medialiteracynow.org/challenge/what-is-media-literacy/) ------ The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People by Project Censored and the Media Revolution Collective ------ National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) (https://namle.org/resources/core-principles/) ------ “Analysis of definitions of media literacy” by W. James Potter in Journal of Media Literacy Education (https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol14/iss2/3/) ------ "Media Literacy is cringe" tweet (https://x.com/SimpNeelix/status/1805427533015326900) ------ Wired for Story by Lisa Cron ------ "In Defense of Inefficiency" by @zoe_bee - https://youtu.be/7-_rK0KkB6k?si=S9mjUShP5G9oIzrQ ------ Everything Bad is Good For You by Steven Johnson ------ Shortform (https://www.shortform.com/) ------ Blinkist (https://www.blinkist.com/) ------ Magibook (https://www.magibook.ai/) ----------- Magibook Ad (https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1drgeb4/it_is_so_over_goddamn/) ------ "we're doomed" by @EvilPinely - https://youtu.be/yvVsH8ZCOV8?si=LukrHqSXJ5fzI4A5 ------ "The Problem with AI Rewriting Books" by @PosiWritesStories - https://youtu.be/-nW_yvh-knY?si=N7AnbEV5rueCqWfN ------ “Copium Addicts: What ‘misinformation’ is actually usually about” by Mike Caulfield on The End(s) of Argument (https://mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/copium-addicts-what-misinformation) ------ A Firehose of Falsehood by Teri Kanefield and Pat Dorian ------ “How Do you Trust?: On Infrastructural Meaning-making and the Need for Self-reflection” by Jutta Haider and Olof Sundin in Understanding Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in the Digital Age (https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/69810710/107_112_Haider_o_Sundin_9_september.pdf) ------ Know-it-all Society: Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture by Michael P. Lynch ------ "You're Watching Video Essays Wrong" by @LegalKimchi (https://youtu.be/ZlK51P0vuc4?si=sH8lJLJ6L24nGhHt) SPECIAL THANKS TO: ------ @BABILA. ------ @HesTheDummyNotMe ------ @elliotsangestevez ------ @LadyEmilyPresents ------ @JoseBird ------ @LegalKimchi ------ @lily_lxndr ------ @LolaSebastian ------ @HumanRestorationProject ------ @noahsamsen ------ @NerdSyncProductions ------ @TheStarfishface FURTHER VIEWING: ----- "On Online Entertainment" by @cjthex - https://youtu.be/SLotGgneoys?si=fu175m2kJPztSlE4 ----- "everybody is stupid now (and how to Not Be)" by @talistheintrovert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPXTUo2bROc * To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ https://www.patreon.com/zoe_bee ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ https://ko-fi.com/zoebee ---Join the Discord! ➤ https://discord.gg/8GBmS9Qug9 ---Check out my second channel! ➤ https://youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my Warrior Cats Podcast! ➤ https://art19.com/shows/the-only-warrior-cats-podcast ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ https://www.youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ https://www.twitch.tv/itucrew (yes I know I mispronounced "panacea")