Media Literacy: What to Read and Believe in the Age of AI

This seminar will explore how both personal values and public life are influenced by what we see, hear, and read in public media, both digital and on the printed page. Students will examine the challenges and opportunities that today's rapidly evolving media landscape present to freedom of the press, and to the democracy that the media serve. Discussion will focus on where facts about society come from & how citizens can best assess the credibility of individual news reports. Students will craft strategies for determining their own personal media diet and for bringing their values into the public conversation.