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National affairs correspondent, ACM. PhD candidate researching misinformation and media literacy. Get in touch: [email protected]
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Ah yes. Still the clear global winner of all headlines
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Haha, only just saw that headline and also shared because wow
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Mostly they are just trying to make the story as interesting as possible so people will read it. āRaidā has been used in place of āsearchā for decades to describe police going into a property.
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The ease of hyperlinking really helps with this
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Itās definitely interesting. Hyperlinks in the digital world help to directly source. But I donāt think news is the place for footnotes. News is meant to be accurate, relevant, and easy to consume for everybody. We wouldnāt want turn news into scientific papers!
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That too
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Sensationalised isnāt good obvs.
But journalists using police speak makes it difficult for people to understand whatās happening.
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š Thanks. I wish more journalists cared as much as you do - then people might consume more quality journalism.
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Also, Taser is trademarked.
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Thanks for sharing!
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Donāt do that. We can only do what we can do.
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Australia, but the principles are the same
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Also. Shout out to every one of the people who volunteered their time to be involved in the research. They had to sit three media literacy tests and listen to me talk for an hour. Legends all.
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I feel your pain
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If we all just took a breath sometimes it would help.
Iāve just finished writing a pilot for a self-paced media literacy course for adults. It cautions against having gut reactions to things before confirming the facts
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Thanks!
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Source: Biddlestone & colleagues in Digital (Dis)Information Operations: Fooling the Five Eyes (4/4)
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āIn adopting conspiracy beliefs about certain groups, people can bolster and defend their self- and group image by placing themselves in a morally superior victim role and, subsequently, hope to satisfy their social needs.ā (3/4)
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āā¦ to adopting easy answers to compensate for this insecurity and uncertainty, and one way to provide easy answers for these concerns is through the identification of antagonistic outgroups that are supposedly responsible for these uncomfortable circumstancesā (2/4)
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Agreed.
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A really fast way to make potential misinformation spread is to give it a legitimate platform. We canāt - and shouldnāt - stop reporting on what elected leaders say, but we can question them in real time.
Otherwise, weāre just transcribers.
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Yes. Love Broken Hill so much
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I get worried about the polarisation trend though
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The tawny frogmouth is gorgeous!
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How so?
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š would love to see it if you find it
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Agreed. Every time I see a goanna I feel like itās a glimpse into dinosaur times or something.
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Hereās how to help stop their spread: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/886569...
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Here he is with his chops (and a funnel web)
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