8 Films About the Uses and Abuses of Digital Media
What are the uses and abuses of digital media? Do the benefits outweigh the dangers? How much does media shape your own life? Do you think you are a critical consumer and creator of digital media?
This week's Tuesday Opinion draws on Media Literacy Week, and using the article from the New York Time, offers you the opportunity to watch eight curated films from the NYT Film Club collection that deal with media and digital technology.
While all of the Film Club entries provide opportunities for you to develop critical thinking and visual literacy skills, this collection of films directly explores the issues and challenges of our media age, for example
Should parents share images and videos of their children without their consent?
How do people get drawn into conspiracy theories, and what are the consequences?
What happens when what you show on social media isn’t real?
And with “deepfakes” on the rise, can we trust what we see and hear?
But for this collection, the NYT has also chosen films that look at the uses and benefits of digital technology. Stories include a Holocaust survivor who participates in an interactive hologram project to preserve her story for conversations with future generations; a suicide hotline for teenagers that’s accessible by texting; and the television show “Sesame Street” and its use of music to teach.
Read the article, and watch the film clips by visiting this link
Then respond to the essential question at the top of this post:
What are the uses and abuses of digital media? Do the benefits outweigh the dangers? Tell us what you think by commenting on this post.
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