Future Literacies: Crash Course Media Literacy

The video discusses the evolution of technology from 2005 to 2015, highlighting key innovations like smartphones and social media. It introduces emerging technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, emphasizing their impact on media. The video explores data literacy, focusing on understanding and analyzing data, and algorithmic literacy, explaining how algorithms influence media consumption. It stresses the importance of skepticism in media literacy, encouraging critical thinking. The course concludes with a summary of media literacy's history and its future challenges.

Discuss the relationship between data and bias in media.

What does the term 'filter bubble' mean in the context of social media?

How can skepticism enhance our understanding of media?