Truthy: Figuring Out What to Believe in Our Hyper-Fast Digital News Age
Have you ever been duped by a tweet containing bad information (that you retweeted) or fallen for a Photoshopped image? The onslaught of news and information is overwhelming. It’s easy to take in whatever we read or see at face value. And with a smartphone in everyone’s hands, we are connected to social media, news apps, text alerts, and email at all times.
In this class, you will learn to think like a (savvy, digital) journalist when it comes to how you decide what to believe online. Anyone who consumes online content can benefit.
Find us in the Digital Commons Dream Lab.
This class is presented in partnership with DC Public Library.
Location
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G St. NW
Washington,
DC
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Past event
Instructor
Claritza Jiménez is a video producer at Associated Press Television News (APTN). She earned a B.A. in political communication from The George Washington University and received an Investigative Journalism Fellowship at American University’s School of Communication, where she earned a Master of Arts in journalism. She is a recipient of the Kiplinger Fellowship in digital media, the United Nations Foundation Global Press fellowship, and has completed the Poynter Institute’s TV news producer program. She is a native Spanish speaker.