Tuning in to the Grammy awards tonight?🎵 Music is much more than sound; it’s a complex system that communicates meaning by engaging our feelings and bodies. Learn more about audio media: https://ow.ly/yYEb50Y7kRQ

Let kids be kids.

Great example of framing effects! When lack of consensus framed as "scientists disagree," people show less concern on the issue. When it's framed as "there are gaps in our knowledge," level of concern stays the same.

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

cult appeal IP for breakfast

And we even made a cool app that anyone can download. Photograph a track, make an outline, put into the app, and voila, it will tell you which tracks in our database it is most similar to, and *why* that is so.

Protecting large predatory fish on the Great Barrier Reef likely prevented a major ecological tipping point, avoiding near-continuous outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (large, spiny coral-eating invertebrates that can devastate reefs when populations explode). buff.ly/osTxe5f #ShareGoodNewsToo

Help shape how Canada talks about sexual consent and sexting! U of T is recruiting parents/caregivers & youth (17–19) to guide a 3-year study, review interview questions and collaborate with MediaSmarts & SIECCAN to create new resources. Interested? Get in touch with [email protected] today.

Each medium has a unique aesthetic form. That means you can do things in each medium - like this comic - that you can't do in any other! #DMLKeyConcepts

Tune in to Your Health with Dr. Trevor today: • 580 CFRA Ottawa Now around 3:35 p.m. • CTV News at Six tonight This week, Dr. Trevor is talking about routine immunizations and why staying up to date is so important in preventing serious diseases.

World Economic Forum names misinformation, disinformation among top global risk factcheckhub.com/world-econom...

The first story arc of “Gotham Central,” titled “In the Line of Duty,” knowingly subverts expectations of a “traditional” superhero story. A comparison with a more traditional story arc, in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #6, underscores this subversion. 1/10 #Batman #GothamCentral #ComicsStudies

What Today’s Teens Are Really Telling Us About Their Onlife World thewhitehatter.ca/post/what-to... #digitalliteracy #onlinesafety #onlineparenting

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why? 🧵 We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...

New year, new learning opportunities! 🎉 Check out our updated Calendar of Awareness Days for dates you can use to integrate media literacy into your January-June lesson planning. 👉 https://ow.ly/yWHv50XY0ob

Did you know MLK, Jr. helped to edit a comic book? I write about this and other powerful comics lesson in my Eisner nominated book. Here’s how I use this comic in my classroom… docs.google.com/file/d/0B4dp... #MLKDay

Media have social and political implications #DMLKeyConcepts

Powerful visualization of changing climate. Media have social and political implications Each medium has a unique aesthetic form #DMLKeyConcepts

Did you know we have lots of lesson plans, guides and even a game on algorithms and AI? Check out all our teaching resources on AI here: https://ow.ly/2LMt50XWCXn

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it. We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics. What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

Glad @americansunlight.org's research with @indicator.media has been cited in @theguardian.com, along w my comment on the infrastructure of deepfakes. I've included some of the rest of my comment below - "if a man can’t undress me without my consent on the street, he can’t do it online either." 🙅🏻‍♀️

Through more than 60 films made with the National Film Board of Canada, filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has shaped the nation’s conscience. Tonight on Face to Face, she shares a childhood memory that had the greatest impact on her artistic journey.

The program is an immersive career accelerator for mid-level, women, non-binary and Two-Spirit #animation professionals across Canada. Deadline February 22 #Indigenous #shortfilm

“Gotham Central” (2002-06) by Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka with art by Michael Lark was a police procedural set in Batman’s Gotham City. It was an innovative and influential revisionist story, underscoring and reframing the human costs of the superheroism. 1/7 #GothamCentral #Batman #ComicsStudies

Watching the Golden Globes? Visual media like movies and TV shows use special techniques to guide what we pay attention to and how we feel. Learn how to read visual media more critically: https://ow.ly/PTaf50XRXKf

I'm looking for media scholars and ethicists with expertise on how the memory and likeness of dead people has been handled historically and is changing now with AI. Any recommendations? (I know, that's pretty niche. Which is why I'm asking for help!)

Why Digital Literacy and Internet Safety Must Be a Conversation, Not a Lecture www.thewhitehatter.ca/post/why-dig... #digitalliteracy #onlinesafety #onlineparenting

I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.

Seen some people suggesting the new shooting video is AI because you can see a dinosaur in the background at one point. But, uh, there’s just a dinosaur on a car on that street. Here’s Google Street View. maps.app.goo.gl/fmgYaLWrwxx3...

Applications are now open at studiobell.ca/ohsotokino and close on March 1, 2026, at 11:59 pm MT.

Check out the new website for the Vaccine Integrity Project, which provides evidence-based data on immunizations. vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu

Did you know you can curate your “media diet” so that you’re getting balanced, accurate info in your news feed? Teach your Grade 7-12 students how with our brand-new lesson plan: https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/networked-news-understanding-and-curating-your-digital-news-feed

Are there any lawyers on here who know a lot about deepfakes and revenge porn?

In any event, the suggestion that paid product placement in novels being commonplace is probably inaccurate. Unless someone can come up with concrete examples, I would consider this to be a myth. I'm not saying it has never happened! I'm just not aware of it, nor have I been a beneficiary of it.

Evergreen good advice. Digital media have unintended audiences #DMLKeyConcepts

Non-consensual image creation / "deep-fake porn" has been a problem for a while that the legal system has only just begun to grapple with but part of what makes the Grok thing much worse is that it's delivered instantly & directly into replies to punish women for publicly speaking or even existing.

📢 The Certainty Illusion paperback drops TODAY! It is sad that the themes in this book more relevant today than when first published! And, as the history of January 6th gets more twisted, fitting that this is the release date. See: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/713451...

This is actually a good article on how a complex work can have multiple (sometimes contradictory) interpretations: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta... Audiences negotiate meaning #DMLKeyConcepts

I'm inordinately proud of the short little video we made for this lesson. Check it out!

Ocean's 11 (hot dogs)

8 challenges we faced to create "Burst Your Bubble!" TY to L.E. Carmichael for inviting me to her wonderful blog to talk about the journey. joycegrantauthor.com/2025/12/8-ch... @owlkids.bsky.social @jandolby.bsky.social @canscaip.bsky.social #kidlit #algorithms

Lester B. Pearson and John Diefenbaker will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Remember when tech companies vowed to do more to stop the flow of disinformation on their platforms? Instead, courtesy of genAI and lax moderation, it's never been harder to discern what's real from what isn't -- especially during breaking news events like today. From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Noam Chomsky and David Mamet have a lot to answer for.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

One “debate” that I’d like to see stay in 2025 is whether audiobooks count as reading. Reading is already on the decline and we should encourage any form of it instead of gatekeeping or judging how people read.

“You’re able to get yourself into a position where you’re most of the way through the intersection, or at the very least, extremely visible before drivers are even meant to start moving […] Visibility is a big factor in safety.” www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

It is is the world's largest skating rink, with a total length of 7.8 kilometres. Each winter, thousands of people come out to skate, play hockey and enjoy the outdoors in Canada's capital on it. This is the story of the Rideau Canal Skateway! 📸 Nea Powell 🧵 1/8

In case you missed it: we were featured in a PBS Newshour Classroom article. www.pbs.org/newshour/cla...

I would like to direct all speeders to this chart