Estados Unidos: Trump’s excessive use of twitter threatens media literacy education

Estados Unidos/Junio de 2017/Fuente: News Day

Resumen:  La directora ejecutiva de la Asociación Nacional para la Educación en la Alfabetización de los Medios (NAMLE), Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, dijo que el hipertweeting de Trump era peligroso y debía ser detenido en declaraciones a periodistas durante la recién terminada gira de información sobre alfabetización mediática y libertad de prensa en el siglo XXI. Dieciocho periodistas de varios países, entre ellos Zimbabwe, asistieron a la gira de presentación de informes organizada por el Departamento de Estado de los Estados Unidos y administrada por el Centro Internacional Meridian. Lipkin dijo que Trump y sus asesores no entienden las implicaciones de sus tweets a organizaciones como NAMLE que se esfuerzan por enseñar y promover la alfabetización mediática.

Speaking to journalists during the recently ended reporting tour on media literacy and press freedom in the 21st century in the US, National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) executive director Michelle Ciulla Lipkin said Trump’s hyper tweeting was dangerous and should be stopped.

Eighteen journalists from various countries among them Zimbabwe attended the reporting tour which was organised by the US State department and administered by Meridian International Center.

Lipkin said Trump and his advisors do not understand the implications of his tweets to organisations like NAMLE which strive to teach and promote media literacy.

“Trump and his advisors need to understand the implications of the information flow that come from his social media platform abuse. His advisors, staff and his press communication’s team need to take the information flow from his tweeter platform more seriously than they are because it is so highly dangerous,” said Lipkin. “Certainly we have never seen this type of flow of information, this is the first time social media has played a big role so we have to figure out a way to keep up. All we want is for his advisors to tell him to stop tweeting.”

Lipkin said teaching media literacy in the 21st century and under Trump’s administration has become more complicated. She said the high use of social media means that the organisation will not be able to respond quickly to explaining different messages being conveyed in such platforms.

Lipkin described media literacy as being able to evaluate and analyse messages encoded and decoded by the media.

She further explained that the US does not have a national standard or educational mandate for media literacy.

“I am sure this is happening all over the world but speaking for the US, there is a new literacy movement as we have some difficulty in the way we talk about media literacy because there is also news literacy, health literacy, financial literacy and digital literacy,” said Lipkin. “We very much like to get together with all of these different movements to make change in education but because there is different groups, there is always a challenge on how do we present ourselves as a united front.”

Since last year’s US presidential campaign season, there has been growing tension between Trump and the media as he accuses the Fourth Estate of reporting “fake news”. According to the Pew Research Centre, most US adults view the current tension between Trump and the US news media as problematic and impacting them directly. “About three in four US adults (73%) say that these tensions are getting in the way of access to important national political news and information,” a survey by the centre revealed.

Fuente: https://www.newsday.co.zw/2017/06/29/trumps-excessive-use-twitter-threatens-media-literacy-education/