4.7 Developing Media Literacy
07/21/21 • 56 min
Vanessa Otero is the creator of the Media Bias Chart, and the Founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media
A licensed patent attorney in the Denver, Colorado area, Vanessa holds a B.A. in English from UCLA and a J.D. from the University of Denver. Vanessa’s formal education and professional career has centered on analytical reading, writing and reasoning, creating an ideal background for her to create a content analysis methodology for evaluating text.
Alarmed by the unhealthy state of the media ecosystem, Vanessa used her expertise in content analysis to create the original Media Bias Chart in 2016. Then in 2018, she founded Ad Fontes Media to fulfill the need revealed by the popularity of the chart–namely, to meet the demand for a map to help people navigate the complex media landscape, and for comprehensive content analysis of media sources themselves. Today, Ad Fontes Media uses a systematic approach to content analysis in which a team of politically-balanced professional analysts examine and categorize news content creating data that is useful to news consumers, educators, marketers, and even publishers themselves. Ad Fontes also offers training in its content analysis methodology through products and services for educational institutions and for individuals.
Vanessa is on the Board of Directors of Community Radio for Northern Colorado and is on the Advisory Council of Media Literacy Now. Vanessa has also been published or featured in articles and blogs on news literacy, news bias and free speech, social media, and conspiracy theories. These sources have included the Poynter Institute, BigThink, MarketWatch, Lifehacker, City A.M. and more. She is a much sought-after speaker at national news literacy workshops and webinars, and presented a workshop at the Northeast Media Literacy Conference this past fall.
Vanessa is committed to making the world a better place with her passion and belief in decreasing the polarization in our news and our society, as well as educating students, teachers, and the public on the true value of media literacy and the importance of a healthy news ecosystem.
Follow and connect with Vanessa: @vlotero, @adfontesmedia, https://www.facebook.com/adfontesmedia, https://www.linkedin.com/company/adfontesmedia/
Promo: Sarah Wells http://www.liveworkdenver.com/
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Vanessa Otero is the creator of the Media Bias Chart, and the Founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media
A licensed patent attorney in the Denver, Colorado area, Vanessa holds a B.A. in English from UCLA and a J.D. from the University of Denver. Vanessa’s formal education and professional career has centered on analytical reading, writing and reasoning, creating an ideal background for her to create a content analysis methodology for evaluating text.
Alarmed by the unhealthy state of the media ecosystem, Vanessa used her expertise in content analysis to create the original Media Bias Chart in 2016. Then in 2018, she founded Ad Fontes Media to fulfill the need revealed by the popularity of the chart–namely, to meet the demand for a map to help people navigate the complex media landscape, and for comprehensive content analysis of media sources themselves. Today, Ad Fontes Media uses a systematic approach to content analysis in which a team of politically-balanced professional analysts examine and categorize news content creating data that is useful to news consumers, educators, marketers, and even publishers themselves. Ad Fontes also offers training in its content analysis methodology through products and services for educational institutions and for individuals.
Vanessa is on the Board of Directors of Community Radio for Northern Colorado and is on the Advisory Council of Media Literacy Now. Vanessa has also been published or featured in articles and blogs on news literacy, news bias and free speech, social media, and conspiracy theories. These sources have included the Poynter Institute, BigThink, MarketWatch, Lifehacker, City A.M. and more. She is a much sought-after speaker at national news literacy workshops and webinars, and presented a workshop at the Northeast Media Literacy Conference this past fall.
Vanessa is committed to making the world a better place with her passion and belief in decreasing the polarization in our news and our society, as well as educating students, teachers, and the public on the true value of media literacy and the importance of a healthy news ecosystem.
Follow and connect with Vanessa: @vlotero, @adfontesmedia, https://www.facebook.com/adfontesmedia, https://www.linkedin.com/company/adfontesmedia/
Promo: Sarah Wells http://www.liveworkdenver.com/
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4.6 Empathy & Consideration
Selys Rivera considers herself to be a God-loving and social justice-obsessed chica originally from Puerto Rico. She has an undergraduate degree in English Writing and a graduate degree in Social Work. Her main goal is to write to inspire others, give a voice to issues she's passionate about, and help others along the way.
She's currently the author of An Unconscious Mestiza: A Collection of Memoir Stories, Rise in Love: A Poetry Chapbook, and Social Justice Advocacy 101: How to Become a Social Justice Advocate from A to Z. She's also a recipient of an Honorable Mention Award in the 2012 Boston Globe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for her essay, "I Love You Infinity".
In her free time, you can find her reading any book she can get her hands on, staying up way too late coloring in her adult coloring book, and playing with her red Dachshund named Ketchup.
Website | https://www.worthareadtoo.com
Social Media Handle (FB, IG, Twitter, Goodereads) | @SelysRivera
Promo: Drinking and Dancing at the End of the World: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/drinking-and-dance-at-the-end-of-the-world/id1514691356
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4.8 DisInformation Society
Desiree, co-founder of Grinding Stone Collective and producer of the First Foods Podcast, is a Miwok multimedia journalist, and a live-media event producer. You can see lots of her documentary photography now in the New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, NM at the Beyond Standing Rock exhibit.
Some of her recent notable work is speaking at Princeton University in April 2019 and again in November 2020. With the Firestarter Films crew as an Associate Producer, Camera Operator and Investigative Journalist on the feature-length documentary film Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, our project premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. She was part of the organizing body the did Boulder Valley Indigenous People’s Day 2019, which was heavily focused on #MMIWG2S, the epidemic that takes so many lives of Native women, girls, and two spirits.
(Read her full bio here- https://bit.ly/3i57nVA)
Roger Wolsey (@RogerWolsey) is a Spiritual Director, United Methodist pastor, Speaker, Writer, and fellow Human. He leads with his heart to bring us into community with one another. A passionate advocate for social justice, Roger has the unique capacity to sit with the discomfort of difference. This allows him to move past the common reactions to find connections others might not be able to achieve. He writes for several online publications and published his first book, Kissing Fish, in 2011 and currently serves on the board of ProgressiveChristianity.org.
Erik and I invited them on the show because they are both inspiring humans who have developed the skills to engage folks effectively in the face of disinformation. Given everything we have been facing and expect to face, we thought other folks would appreciate the opportunity to learn from their experience and expertise.
Questions can be submitted before the event here: https://app.sli.do/event/jod8sbka #604434
Referenced items:
The illusion of explanatory depth (IoED), Do you understand how a zipper works?
First Foods- https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=230281248632461&ref=watch_permalink
Grindingstone- https://www.Grindingstone.org
What To Know About Disinformation History, Tactics, and Real-Life Examples- https://e-rosalie.medium.com/what-to-know-about-disinformation-history-tactics-and-real-life-examples-95ab13f0254
Books recommended on the show:
When Everything Matters by Dr Cindy Blackstock
The Way of Love by Bishop Michael Curry
Cult of Trump by Steven Hassan- https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Cult-of-Trump/Steven-Hassan/9781982127343
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