Read Between the Lines: Critical Thinking in a Globalised World
Explore techniques used in modern media to manipulate stories and information and learn how to critically evaluate these as responsible global citizens. Join ABC International and ABC Health Reporters, Lucy Sweeney and Tegan Taylor, to discuss critical thinking in a global world dominated by media.
Online, interactive session (Zoom session registration required) - This session will earn 5 elective points for UTS BUILD members.
We consume information and news via various means including the media and social media apps. But is everything we read or see revealing all of the facts.....or are they even true at all?!
In a globalised world, where anyone and everyone is potentially a "reporter", generating or sharing content and news, we must be able to critically think about and evaluate the information we are provided. Identifying common techniques used to illicit certain responses, mis-leading or false information are just the beginning of being able to think independently and critically about what we see and read.
This session will explore some of these issues and topics with ABC International Reporter, Lucy Sweeney, and ABC Health Reporter, Tegan Taylor, who will guide us through:
- Identifying the difference between mis-information, dis-information and mal-information.
- Learning different ways in which news and information is received daily and reflect on these as ‘reliable’ or ‘unreliable’.
- Identifying ways in which people’s brains and opinions can be influenced.
- Reflecting on the responsibilities of consuming information and news and passing this on to others.
- Learning to critically analyse information provided by various sources.
- Identifying tangible strategies to critically review information and filter sources.
- Understanding the harm that false or misleading information has for the Australian public and global population.
About Lucy Sweeney, Reporter: ABC International
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Lucy Sweeney is a digital producer and journalist with the ABC News International team. She works with the ABC's foreign correspondents to bring audiences the latest news, features and analysis from around the world. Recently Lucy has covered everything from how different countries are handling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, to the fall of abortion rights across the US, and of course Russia's war in Ukraine.
About Tegan Taylor, Health Reporter: ABC Science
Tegan Taylor is a health and science reporter for the ABC and co-host of the ABC’s multi-award-winning Coronacast.
She also co-hosts ABC Radio National’s Health Report and hosts the live event series and radio/podcast Ockham’s Razor. She’s been known to pop up on RN Life Matters, Triple J and in the Best of Australian Science Writing. In 2020, Coronacast won a Walkley award and the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism.
Tegan was previously a producer on the ABC's national digital newsdesk, a journalism lecturer at The University of Queensland and, long ago, a newspaper reporter.
