The Case for Teaching

News Literacy:
Giving Facts a Fighting Chance
Christine Nyirjesy Bragale
Senior Vice President, Communications
@NewsLitProject
cbragale@newslit.org
@TheNewsLiteracyProject
November 2018
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 Por que a alfabetização
jornalística é importante

Notícias Estórias verdadeiras Estórias verdadeiras

falsas têm levam seis vezes raramente atingem
70% mais mais tempo que as mais de 1.000 pessoas.
chance de falsas para alcançar
1.500 pessoas. 1% das principais
serem
estórias falsas são
tweetadas
sempre compartilhadas
que estórias
por 1.000 a 100.000
reais.
pessoas.
Informação enganosa: mais que “Fake
News”
 Entreter

Convencer
Zonas de Informação
Provocar

Informar

Documentar

Vender
 Informação falsa como uma
arma
Percentual de
quem se
preocupa com
informação falsa
ou fake news
sendo usada
como uma arma
Quase

7 em cada 10
Se preocupam com
informação falsa ou fake
news sendo usadas como
uma arma
 Possíveis Soluções?
1. Censura
Eliminar contas falsas sem dono
individual/empresarial
Quebra da Liberdade de Expressão

2. Curadoria de Conteúdo
Reconhecer viés pessoal na escolha da
mídia
As pessoas não pensam por si próprias

3. Educação
“Habilidade de
determinar o que
é confiável ou
não – esta é a
nova habilidade
básica em nossa
sociedade.”
— Evaluating Information:
The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
(Stanford History Education Group, 2016)
A alfabetização jornalística é
uma habilidade de
sobrevivência no século 21.
 Qual é a diferença?
MEDIA LITERACY NEWS LITERACY

• Foco nas ferramentas

para se tornar
consumidores mais
• Foco mais amplo
inteligentes e mais
sobre a cultura
responsáveis e
popular, inclusive Fomentar
criadores da
cinema e habilidades informação na era
televisão. de digital.
• Ênfase nas questões pensamento • Salienta o valor da
de representação,
crítico imprensa livre e do
tais como o retrato da
papel de vigilância dos
mulher e pessoas de
jornalistas.
cor. • Ênfase no
envolvimento cívico
ativo como um
importante resultado.
The Antidote
 Nossa Missão e Visão
•NOSSA MISSÃO NOSSA VISÃO
•O The News Literacy Project, A alfabetização
uma instituição apartidária e jornalística está
sem fins lucrativos, empodera incorporada na
educadores a ensinar os experiência educacional
da escola de ensino
alunos habilidades que
fundamental e medio
precisam ter para que sejam
Americana.
consumidores inteligentes e
ativos de notícias e outras
informações, e se envolvam e
se informem enquanto
participantes de nossa
democracia.
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Introducing the new
Checkology®
Our Impact

are more likely to vote are more confident in their

when old enough to do so. ability to spot misinformation.

xx % xx %
are more likely to correct are more confident in their
misinformation they see ability to explain the role of
online. the First Amendment in
American democracy.
“Checkology taught
me to seek news
rather than
receiving it, so I
went out and
investigated it
myself.”
— Sophia Fiallo
The Young Women's Leadership School of
Astoria (New York)
2018 winner of NLP's Gwen Ifill Student
Journalist of the Year Award
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 “To abandon facts
is to abandon freedom.
If nothing is true, then no one can
criticize power because there is no
basis upon which to do so. If nothing
is true, then all is spectacle.”
— Yale historian Timothy Snyder
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