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Spring Break Sanctuary: Ideas To Celebrate Screen Free Week

March 23, 2011 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

May 6, 2015 This year, "Screen Free Week" has been hardest on me for work related immediacy, as Twitter and 'livestreaming' events have made me feel like Gumby with people pinging and pushing their … [Read more...]

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Media Unplugged: Clamping The IV Digital Drip (Pt1)

August 28, 2010 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Dec. 14, 2015 Update Don't miss this Wall Street Journal article, "Is your Doctor Getting Too Much Screen Time? which is a huge patient/service complaint and a disconnect especially among seniors … [Read more...]

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The Great Escape: Shaping Youth Unplugged (Again)

December 10, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

The collective intelligence at the Program for the Future Conference may have fried my synapses, and short-circuited my braincells in overdrive... I had a full post ready to go saying 'I'm goin' … [Read more...]

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Avatar Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu ·

26 Nov

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says his network’s friendly interview with Trump, “put in doubt the independence of our news department.”

"We cannot... offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

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16 Nov

Out today! A driver's manual for staying sane on the internet. @holden

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16 Nov

As @jayrosen_nyu so clearly states, it's "not the odds, but the stakes"...Media and #journo can convey context without partisan pandering, clearly citing facts on autocracy objectively...@Sulliview is right, the public deserves to be informed. #NewsLiteracy #democracy

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16 Nov

Dangerous 🆘📢to see this, given they've once AGAIN just enabled their platform to post lies claiming a rigged election when it was not! This is how democracies are overthrown with #misinformation Have media learned nothing? #Journo pay attention! WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-allows-ads-claiming-rigged-2020-election-on-facebook-instagram-309b678d?mod=e2tw

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