Today, in our series finale, we’re going to talk about the great white whale of navigating online information: your social media feed. Social media shapes both our online and offline behaviors from how we engage in communities and consume goods and services to influencing our thoughts and opinions. So let’s talk about how they really function – the good stuff and also the terrible stuff.
We know that navigating our current information environment can be frustrating, and we hope this series has helped you develop the habits to navigate our digital world a bit more confidently. Thanks so much for watching!
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This one and media literacy should be on the curriculum every human takes before going online. Hot damn!
Good morning friend so love you
BALANCE!!!! THANK YOU!!!!
Is it just me who hates Facebook Or…??
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i, myself, have been subject to these algorithms that i began to notice the structures and patterns to which i have been so addicted with. media literacy is highly important to teenagers these days. if we fail to educate the youth, we all might experience the consequences of falling into these rabbit holes. let's make the internet ecosystem a better and healthier place for everyone.
I'd rather have this frustrating socio – digital world than not have it at all. 💯
It's been at least two years since I've deleted all my social media accounts, and don't read any coverage about "twitterati". I had to make a facebook account a couple of days ago to wach la liga on facebook watch, but I haven't made any online friends. Though I had made that decision before these videos, still a huge thank you to John and crash course for them.
Thank you and MediaWise so much for this series! It was an amazing journey!… Everyone needs this information to survive in today's world (…unless you're the Mongols!)
Great video! Just doing some social media work and this was very helpful to me.