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"html": "You Think You Want Media Literacy\u2026 Do You?\n\n\u201cMedia literacy is imagined to be empowering, enabling individuals to have agency and giving them the tools to help create a democratic society. But fundamentally, it is a form of critical thinking that asks people to doubt what they see. And that makes me nervous.\u201d I\u2019m not sure I draw the same conclusion; healthy cynicism doesn\u2019t mean doubting everything one sees. But media literacy, or critical thinking in general, should never be confined to the absolute binary of \u2018true\u2019 or \u2018false\u2019. Context is key, as are layers of meaning, particularly as propaganda gets more savvy and sophisticated.",
"value": "You Think You Want Media Literacy\u2026 Do You?\n\n\u201cMedia literacy is imagined to be empowering, enabling individuals to have agency and giving them the tools to help create a democratic society. But fundamentally, it is a form of critical thinking that asks people to doubt what they see. And that makes me nervous.\u201d I\u2019m not sure I draw the same conclusion; healthy cynicism doesn\u2019t mean doubting everything one sees. But media literacy, or critical thinking in general, should never be confined to the absolute binary of \u2018true\u2019 or \u2018false\u2019. Context is key, as are layers of meaning, particularly as propaganda gets more savvy and sophisticated."
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"You Think You Want Media Literacy\u2026 Do You? \u201cMedia literacy is imagined to be empowering, enabling individuals to have agency and giving them the tools to help create a democratic society. But fundamentally, it is a form of critical thinking that asks people to doubt what they see. And that makes me nervous.\u201d I\u2019m not […]"
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