In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and—ultimately—mobilize us.
🎓 Webinar: Video Games as a Violence Prevention Tool
In this webinar, the founder and executive director of the ngo Jennifer Ann's Group will discuss how video games can be utilized to teach consent, healthy relationships, and resilience.
Join us to hear about this organization’s mission and work, and how these strategies can be used for violence prevention work with youth.
📆 Oct 19th 10:30AM-12PMPST / 1:30-3PM EST
Free and open to everyone! ASL interpreters will be present.
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📚 Cognitive Behavioral Immersion for Substance Use Disorders: A Feasibility and Pilot Study of a Peer-Based Coaching Program in the Metaverse
📚 Effect of Exergaming on Quality of Life, Fatigue, and Strength and Endurance Muscle in Cancer Patients: A Randomized Crossover Trial
Browsing through the news headlines these days is done in 10 seconds. It's all war, and other brutal violence. Sad people are still interested in this. One would think we would want to focus on the more productive and uplifting stuff.
The iPhone of Meduza's Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus spyware in February 2023. The ability of Russian independent journalists to continue their work in exile is under tremendous pressure (Meduza has been operating from Riga since 2014). Yet more evidence how working from within the EU does not necessarily shield them from risk
'The construction of Latin America’s media spaces was not the result of
particular struggles for participation and debate. From the beginning, these spaces were derived from elite power, being conceived as (a) commodities to be exploited by the private sector and (b) mechanisms of political and societal control'