Annual Media Literacy Week Returns to MeramecBy: The Montage Staff
From Oct. 3 to Oct. 9, people will have the opportunity to learn how to make an app, fact-check politicians, and better understand mental health and substance abuse.
Locations for Media Literacy Week: Truth or Consequences vary between Webster University, Ladue
Horton Watkins High School, the Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis University and STLCCMeramec. The majority of events will be held on the Meramec campus during the week.
The Media Literacy Week Kick-Off will be held from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Webster University in the Sunnen Lounge, with a message from the president. The return of Media Literacy Week introduces a
number of technological- and political-based presentations and panels.
Speakers will introduce ideas that can help attendees understand media phenomena of the modern world. Some presentations will focus on media filtering in public schools; understanding the truth and consequences behind how media represent mental health and substance abuse; and others will focus on how the increasing reliance on media has affected journalism.
John Messmer, Ph.D., political science professor at Meramec, will be giving a presentation with Frank Baker, consultant and media literacy expert, called “Fact-Checking the Politicians: Lies, Half-Truths, and the Consequences of Each.”
Attendance for each seminar is free. For more information on times and locations, visit http://stlcc.
edu/mc and click on the “Truth or Consequences” link.
