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ERIC Number: EJ1372457
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
EISSN: EISSN-1930-3653
Understanding and Addressing Misinformation as Voter Suppression
Duncan, Kristen E.; Hoover, Jania
Social Education, v86 n6 p402-406 Nov-Dec 2022
Voter participation in elections is the cornerstone of U.S. democracy, yet there is a history of voter suppression and intimidation tactics that specifically target Black Americans which did not cease in the twenty-first century, it merely transformed. Teachers can help students get ahead of voter suppression efforts by making sure students realize that voter suppression is part of the nation's past and its present. This article presents a critical digital media literacy tool that students (and all consumers of digital media) can use to analyze election-related posts on social media. It combines aspects of digital media literacy as presented by Common Sense Media and the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State Social Studies Standards. The authors demonstrate this tool by using it to analyze an image posted on Twitter one week before the 2016 presidential election.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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