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Media Literacy Week: Resources

Media Literacy

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The Netflix movie The Social Dilemma is really hot right now and on topic with Media Literacy Week, under Take Action there are a lot of useful resources. The trailer is available above.
The Center for Humane Technology "envisions a world where technology is realigned with humanity’s best interests. Our work expands beyond tech addiction to the broader societal threats that the attention economy poses to our well-being, relationships, democracy, and shared information environment. We must address these threats to conquer our biggest global challenges like pandemics, inequality, and climate change."

Print and Electronic Books Available at the BCIT Library

The Misinformation Age: how false beliefs spread
Call Number: BF 323 E7 O23 2019
Bunk: the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news
Call Number: BJ 1421 Y68 2017
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Call Number: HF 5415.32 Z83 2019
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Call Number: HM 851 L3579 2018
The Educator's Guide to Producing New Media and Open Educational Resources
Call Number: LB 1028.3 G754 2018
Introduction to Mass Communication: media literacy and culture
Call Number: P 90 B284 2010
Ethics for a Digital Era
Call Number: PN 4756 E57 2018
Dawn of the New Everything: encounters with reality and virtual reality
Call Number: QA 76.2 L36 A3 2017
Weapons of math destruction : how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy
Call Number: QA 76.9 B45 O64 2016
Automating Humanity
Call Number: T 14 T67 2018
Not Just Where to Click: teaching students how to think about information
Call Number: ZA 3075 N68 2015
Ambient Findability
Publication Date: 2005
The Need for Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method
Publication Date: 2018
Media, society, culture and you : an introductory mass communication text
Publication Date: 2019

Videos

From LinkedIn Learning, a BCIT subscription database.

From Curio, a database of CBC and Radio-Canada content.

Reducing Media Literacy Barriers

Universal Design in Higher Education: from principles to practice
Call Number: LC 4818.38 U55 2015

Accessibility And Academic Libraries: A Comparative Case Study Student thesis, 2019
Barriers in BC’s Digital Environment By Mark Weiler, 2019
BC Accessibility and inclusion toolkit
BC Accessible Resource Centre
UBC Access
Council of Ontario Universities Educator’s Accessibility Toolkit
Ontario Council of University Libraries Accessibility Information Toolkit for Libraries
Left Out: Challenges faced by persons with disabilities in Canada’s schools Report by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. It provides a good introduction to statistics disability and the impact of inaccessible education from a Canadian post-secondary perspective.
Dalton, E.M. (2017). Beyond Universal Design for Learning: Guiding Principles to Reduce Barriers to Digital & Media Literacy Competence. Journal of Media Literacy Education, 9 (2), 17-29 This article provides a good overview of UDL and how disability intersects with media literacy (from a perspective based on US disability legislation).