The seven Minnesota Multicounty Multitype Library Systems have designed a new series of the 23 Things in collaboration with Minitex, to support the Media Landscapes Campaign. Media Landscapes is designed to meet the needs of Minnesota library staff through the following goals:
- Understand how people navigate the media and information landscape, and how forces within that landscape influence their navigation.
- Learn how to build reflection and intentionality into their information consumption.
- Gain strategies for working with their communities on intentional approaches to information consumption.
This series of 23 Things is designed to help library staff engage more deeply with the issues and concepts addressed in the Media Landscapes Campaign. By working together through these Things, we should all have a greater understanding of disinformation, information/digital literacy, and how to address these issues in various ways and in various library settings.
How This Works
If you participated in any of the Multicounty Multitype previous 23 Things–Things on a Stick, More Things on a Stick, Mobile Things–you already have an idea of how the program works.
- This is a self-paced online learning program. You are in charge of your learning; you set the timeline for doing and completing the Things, you decide how much time to spend on each, and you decide which Things are most important for you.
- You can do the Things in any order, although some might make more sense done in sequence or after one of the Media Landscapes events. It is up to you. You can do all the Things or only those that you want to know more about.
- The Things all follow a similar format. Each Thing will have supplemental readings or videos on the key concepts. Following the readings/videos are a series of activities that encourage deeper thinking on the topics, explain a tool or two that may help you identify misinformation or other areas, or additional content. Each Thing requires no more than 45-60 minutes or more with supplemental activities.
- The Things will be released on a rolling basis. There will not be one Thing per Media Landscapes presentation. Instead, there will be multiple Things based on the ideas and concepts around digital and information literacy from the speakers
- The Things will include several questions you can use to continue your thinking on the topic or use to introduce the topic into a conversation.
- At the end of each Thing, there is a brief evaluation. Completing this will help us to know you’ve completed that Thing.
- Register so you receive updates when new Things are released and new events are scheduled. You may use any email address you check regularly. Completing the evaluation at the end of each Thing, with your registered email address, is also how we determine credit for clock hours. Register.
- You can receive clock hours for the Things you do completely. Completing the evaluation at the end of each Thing, with your registered email address, is how we determine credit for clock hours. No partial hours are awarded.
Note: We recommend using the Chrome browser for doing the Media Landscapes: 23 Things. If possible, install at least these two extensions to make it more efficient. Adblock for Youtube™ will let you watch videos without ads and Adblock blocks many annoying ads and popups.
Participants are encouraged to work together with others in their libraries or regions and to share their insights and discoveries. Libraries can establish discussion groups or other communication tools to support each other throughout the process.
Thing 3: Propaganda: Making Media Great Again
Thing 4: Attention Economy: Information is Not Scarce; Attention is