%0 Journal Article
%T Teaching Truth, Lies, and Accuracy in the Digital Age: Media Literacy as Project
%A Yonty Friesem
%J Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
%@ 2161-4326
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077695819829962
%X The post-truth era has challenged traditional ways of teaching journalism and media literacy. Media literacy education can offer a useful lens for teaching students to be more critical. This pedagogy article describes a semester-long undergraduate course designed to deconstruct information disorder in the post-truth era by looking at economics, ideology, and power relations. Applying a project-based learning model allowed students to enhance their digital and media literacy skills by inquiring about the accuracy of a variety of sources centered on a single story
%K media literacy
%K project-based learning
%K scholastic journalism
%K curriculum
%K pedagogy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077695819829962