Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation

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Edited by Tara Lockhart, Brenda Glascott, Chris Warnick, Juli Parrish, and Justin Lewis Working and Writing for Change Series Editors: Steve Parks and Jessica Pauszek Information and Pricing 978-1-64317-250-7 (PDF, free download). © 2021 by New City Community Press. 255 pages, notes, bibliography, and illustrations. Bookstores : Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. Reviews and News " English Professor Fights to Keep Truth Alive in Post-Truth Age ," College of Liberal and Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, 3 June 2011. About This Book This collection of full-length essays and interviews explores networked literacies and their impact on information systems and literacy learning and action. Understanding the underlying structures of networked literacies is essential to help students, teachers, and society members nurture the deliberative, reflective practices and pedagogies needed in our current moment. This collection brings together voices from diverse locations within—and outside of—the academy. Literacy colleagues from sites including K-12 education, social media, activist organizations, and journalism contribute interviews and short praxis essays, resulting in a networked conversation that echoes the patterns of information ecologies themselves. A central contention of the collection is that our literacy practices must adapt to take into account the material realities, challenges, and affordances of the technologies shaping information production, distribution, and reception. Recommitting to traditional information literacy and rhetorical pedagogies is not enough to counter problems posed by mis- and disinformation. Instead, the versions of critical reading and engagement offered in this collection forefront the need for students to approach texts warily, given that writers might aim to confuse, obscure, or trick, and that elements of a digital ecology—including algorithms, bots, trolls, and applications—might di