The need for audiences to make sense of fake news, political propaganda, alternative facts and the flood of tweets and images is stronger than ever. For the past week my students and I have been trying to make sense of the Trump-filled airwaves and 140 character...
Each year I ask my first-year university students to write a paper of their choice on anything to do with mass media. This assignment is an excellent gauge of what young adults are most concerned with and worried about. Social media, particularly the role it plays in...