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Did your basic education (i.e. pre-college/university) cover proper research skills and media literacy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm sure this will vary for many people depending on their schools, where/when they were taught, and the like, so I'm interested to see what others' experiences have been with this.

I'm also curious about what resources some have used to learn better research skills & media literacy (and found useful) if their school didn't adequately teach either (or they may have whiffed on it at the time).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm over 40 and while I was taught to do research on a Microfische, I was regularly told not to trust anything on the internet.

As for media literacy, no way in hell. Especially after the Telecommunications Act of 1996 started allowing mass consolidation of media empires. In the 1980's, majority of US media was owned by around 80 companies, in the modern era, it's five that own the majority of the US media landscape.

You say the name "Marshall McLuhan" or even "the medium is the message" and you get confused fucking looks.