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Part Four (Rhetoric and Solutions...maybe)

Final episode! Resources: * NAMLE - National Association for Media Literacy [https://namle.org/] * Bipartisan Policy Center - Countering Online Radicalization in America [https://bipartisanpolicy.org/download/?file=/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/5086_BPC-_Online-Radicalization-Report-Executive-Summary-v4_web.pdf] * hhttps:// [https://perilresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/splc-peril-addressing-harm-impact-study-april-2023-1.pdf]perilresearch.com/who-we-are/ [http://perilresearch.com/who-we-are/] * https://www.un.org/en/countering-disinformation [https://www.un.org/en/countering-disinformation]

Part Three (History Matters)

Even MORE sources: * Sykes, Charles. “We’re Living in the World Rush Limbaugh Created.” The Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2021, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-living-in-the-world-rush-limbaugh-created/2021/02/17/99e48410-7170-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-living-in-the-world-rush-limbaugh-created/2021/02/17/99e48410-7170-11eb-85fa-e0ccb3660358_story.html]. Accessed 9 May 2025. * Tenore, Haley. “Teens Spend Nearly 2 Hours a Day on TikTok — and Barely Look at Facebook, a New Study Says. See How Other Apps Stack Up.” Business Insider, 28 Sept. 2023, www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-youtube-most-popular-screen-time-teens-facebook-instagram-study-2023-9 [http://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-youtube-most-popular-screen-time-teens-facebook-instagram-study-2023-9]. * Toobin, Jeffrey. Homegrown. Simon and Schuster, 9 Apr. 2024. * UNHCR. Factsheet 4: Types of Misinformation and Disinformation. 2022. * Waldman, Steven. “An Overlooked — and Increasingly Important — Clue to How People Vote - POLITICO.” POLITICO, Politico, Nov. 2024, www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548 [http://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/09/social-media-traditional-news-elections-00188548]. * Wofford, Benjamin. “Meet the Lobbyist next Door.” Wired, 14 July 2022, www.wired.com/story/meet-the-lobbyist-next-door/ [http://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-lobbyist-next-door/]. * Wolfson, Sam. “Don’t Underestimate the Rogansphere. His Mammoth Ecosystem Is Fox News for Young People.” The Guardian, The Guardian, 20 Nov. 2024, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/joe-rogan-theo-von-podcasts-donald-trump [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/joe-rogan-theo-von-podcasts-donald-trump].

Part Two (Media Effects and other stuff)

More Sources: * Grossmann, Matt, and David A. Hopkins. “From Fox News to Viral Views: The Influence of Ideological Media in the 2018 Elections.” The Forum, vol. 16, no. 4, 19 Dec. 2018, pp. 547–567, www.degruyter.com/view/journals/for/16/4/article-p551.xml [http://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/for/16/4/article-p551.xml], https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2018-0037 [https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2018-0037]. Accessed 24 Nov. 2020. * Gunderman, Richard. “The Manipulation of the American Mind: Edward Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations.” The Conversation, 9 July 2015, theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393 [http://theconversation.com/the-manipulation-of-the-american-mind-edward-bernays-and-the-birth-of-public-relations-44393]. * Hatfield, Jenn. “More than 80% of Americans Believe Elected Officials Don’t Care What People like Them Think.” Pew Research Center, 30 Apr. 2024, www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/30/more-than-80-of-americans-believe-elected-officials-dont-care-what-people-like-them-think/ [http://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/30/more-than-80-of-americans-believe-elected-officials-dont-care-what-people-like-them-think/]. * Hemmer, Nicole. Messengers of the Right : Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics. Philadelphia, University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. * Hoare, Annabel. “What Parents Need to Know to Talk to Their Children about the Manosphere.” The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2025, theconversation.com/what-parents-need-to-know-to-talk-to-their-children-about-the-manosphere-252984 [http://theconversation.com/what-parents-need-to-know-to-talk-to-their-children-about-the-manosphere-252984]. * Horowitz, Justin. “TikTok’s Manosphere Problem: Violent Misogyny Keeps Going Viral.” Media Matters for America, 10 Jan. 2024, www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-manosphere-problem-violent-misogyny-keeps-going-viral [http://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-manosphere-problem-violent-misogyny-keeps-going-viral]. * Leidy, Levi. “It Pays to Talk! Joe Rogan’s Net Worth from Podcasting and More.” Parade, 7 Mar. 2024, parade.com/celebrities/joe-rogan-net-worth [http://parade.com/celebrities/joe-rogan-net-worth]. * Lewis Raven Wallace. The View from Somewhere : Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity. Chicago, The University Of Chicago Press, 2019. * Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. New York, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922. * Little, Olivia. “STUDY: Tradwife Influencers Are Quietly Spreading Far-Right Conspiracy Theories.” Media Matters for America, 1 May 2024, www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/study-tradwife-influencers-are-quietly-spreading-far-right-conspiracy-theories [http://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/study-tradwife-influencers-are-quietly-spreading-far-right-conspiracy-theories].

Part One (Being Wrong Sucks)

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