An educational organization that promotes and supports media literacy by helping citizens develop critical thinking and media production skills that are needed to be fully engaged in the 21st century media culture.
The Oxford Internet Institute is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.
A Pew Research Center study that looks at how adults get their news through various social media platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter, rather than through more traditional news mediums.
An article from MIT Technology Review that talks about the shift of the Internet and social media from information to entertainment and how this shift is killing social discourse.
A Wall Street Journal article that looks at the findings of a Stanford University study. According to this study, close to 82% of middle school students can't distinguish between real news and "sponsored content" on a website.
Books
Media and Information Literacy by Marcus Leaning
ISBN: 9780081002353
Publication Date: 2017-03-31
Reading the Web, Second Edition by Elizabeth Dobler; Maya B. Eagleton; Donald J. Leu (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781462520886
Publication Date: 2015-06-23
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
ISBN: 9780143121237
Publication Date: 2012-04-24
The Post-Truth Era by Ralph Keyes
ISBN: 0312306482
Publication Date: 2004-10-03
Media and Information Literacy in Higher Education by Siri Ingvaldsen