In this final episode Michelle Ainsworth explores why everyone needs strong media and digital literacy skills to help navigate our increasingly messy information ecosystem. She’ll also touch on the importance of civic engagement in a democracy.

She’ll talk to experts in media and digital literacy, civics, former US government advisors and leading academics in disinformation.

This episode includes interviews with:

Leo Pekkala, Deputy Director KAVI, Finland’s National Audio-Visual Institute

Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, former Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education

Michael Daniel, President Cyber Threat Alliance

Associate Professor Michelle Amazeen, Mass Communication, Boston University

Sam Stockwell, Alan Turing Institute’s Centre for Emerging Technology and Security

Professor Amy E. Lehrman, Director of the Possibility Lab, UC Berkeley

Abby Kiesa, outgoing deputy director, Centre for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

Professor Jon Roozenbeek, Social Decision-Making Lab, Cambridge University

Publications cited:

Adult Media Literacy - Australian Media Literacy Alliance

Circle at Tufts University

NAMLE (National Association for Media Literacy Education)

Sir Winston Churchill democracy speech - UK Hansard 11 Nov 1947

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