# YouTube and the Death of Media Literacy

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Language: en

Published: 2024-09-02T14:00:40+00:00

Source creator: Zoe Bee

Duration: 5152 seconds

## Description

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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 



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(yes I know I mispronounced "panacea")

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