Using Critical Race Theory as a Framework for Teaching Mis/Dis Information
Peer Review Presentation | Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | 3:00pm – 4:00pm EST
The approaches to mis/disinformation in libraries and information studies have largely been grounded in two forms of literacy education; media literacy and digital literacy. Both media literacy and digital literacy offer a limited generic framing for engaging with digital information and myriad technology. In recognition, critical media literacy and critical digital literacy emerged. Advancing the two types of literacy education towards a more contextualized and nuanced approach that includes considerations for examination of the ways bias and assumptions are baked into our interactions with media. However, it still falls short of providing an acute awareness of the systemic relationship that media and digital information platforms have with interlocking systems of oppression. In keeping with the spirit of a working symposium the following presentation seeks to provide a forum for open discussion, community, and the development of strategies for the ways that CRT can be used as a pedagogical framework for teaching mis/dis information in the library classroom.
[This peer review presentation will not be recorded.]
Presenter: Melissa Chomintra / Presenter slides
Melissa Chomintra Melissa is a white first-generation college graduate raised in Las Vegas in a multi-generational working poor family. Her research is viewed through a feminist lens and is shaped by her lived experience in and outside of the academy. She is working towards a better understanding of how gender, class, and race participate and intersect in the academy and uses her teaching as a site of resistance.