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Suggested Readings
Grapefruit, Proud Boys, and Tricky Translation
Well-researched stories from
Atlas Obscura, Insider,
and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Roundup
And a Fabulous LGBTQ History Month to You, Too!
Queer people have always had a particular relationship with history. It's only lately that archival silences have been challenged, and overcome.
Shared Collections
Polish Posters in the RISD Library Collection
Posters are part of a tradition of object-based learning at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Suggested Readings
Endangered Plants, Lizard Sex, and Voter Suppression
Well-researched stories from CNN, the
New York Times
, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Invented Math, Trustworthy Vaccines, and New Sugar
Well-researched stories from
Smithsonian, FiveThirtyEight,
and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Breathing Machines, New Fires, and Life on Venus
Well-researched stories from
Aeon, Yale 360
, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Fungi, Red Skies, and Simplistic Thinking
Well-researched stories from
Catapult, Slate,
and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Shared Collections
Freshwater Fish of Virginia
Roanoke College's Ichthyological Collection of over 800 freshwater fish documents the biodiversity we're losing at an alarming rate.
Syllabus
Wildfires and Climate Change
Scholarly research offers insight into the ways climate change and other factors are contributing to the wildfire crisis.
Suggested Readings
Punctuation, Vikings, and COVID’s Long Shadow
Well-researched stories from
Aeon, Slate,
and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Bad Chairs, Happy Memories, and Vigilante-Friendly Cops
Well-researched stories from
The Guardian, Forge,
and more great publications that that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Fake Mystery, Real Boredom, and Black Infants’ Lives
Well-researched stories from
Vice, The New Yorker,
and more great publications that that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Reading Lists
Fake News: A Media Literacy Reading List
Compiled by graduate students in a 2016 course on “Activism and Digital Culture,” at University of Southern California.
Suggested Readings
Lying Cars, Workplace Racism, and Astrological Science
Well-researched stories from
Mel Magazine, The Cut,
and more great publications that that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Sprawl, Body Odor, and Disaster in Beirut
Well-researched stories from
NPR
,
The Guardian
, and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Clean Skin, Ancient Microbes, and Mom Shame
Well-researched stories from
The New Yorker, Wired,
and more great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Verbatim
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Intersectional Feminism
Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw broke new ground by showing how women of color were left out of feminist and anti-racist discourse.
Suggested Readings
T. rex Physics, Lost Vegetables, and Coming Dystopias
Well-researched stories from
Wired, Atlas Obscura,
and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Hot Dogs, Mourning, and Native Oklahoma
Well-researched stories from CNN,
Maclean's
, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Helpful Rats, Terrifying Chickens, and Risky Thinking
Well-researched stories from
NPR
,
The Walrus
, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Suggested Readings
Vaccine Tests, Confederate Names, and Real Pain
Well-researched stories from
Wired, The Washington Post,
and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Verbatim
Shirley Chisholm: Sisterhood Is Complicated
A 1974 interview on feminism and politics with the first Black major-party candidate for president.
Suggested Readings
Dark Matter, Dolphin Education, and Doomscrolling
Well-researched stories from
Aeon
,
Science Magazine
, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Syllabus
Media Literacy & Fake News: A Syllabus
Ten lessons from the past and steps we can take now to educate ourselves and our students about how to be a thoughtful consumer of information.
Verbatim
Five Decades of Black Activism in St. Louis
Elizabeth Hinton, Percy Green II, Robin D. G. Kelley, Tef Poe, George Lipsitz, and Jamala Rogers trace the history from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.
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