And lo, the Google calendar began to fill. For two glorious months, those little white squares had mostly belonged to me. Then August arrived (as…
Author: Vanessa Greenwood, Ph.D.
Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA | Research interests include media literacy, communication, education, and technology.
When Did Fall Become a Flavor? Pumpkin Spice Has Literally Reached Bottom
Prefer to Listen? Autumn arrives early on my farmstead. I don’t mean calendar early. I mean, I spend enough time outside that sometime in late…
Of Pigs and Platforms: What We Leave Behind
Prefer to listen? August in New Jersey can make vegetation seem almost aggressive. This morning I was working my way around the perimeter of my…
Read Before Write
Image above is AI generated. Ideas below are human generated. Prefer to listen? In the summer of 1921, a fourteen-year-old farm boy named Philo Farnsworth…
Precut and Prepackaged: Feeding Our Hunger for More
Prefer to listen? I took this photograph while browsing the aisles of a charming upscale market in northern New Jersey. Packages of asparagus, rainbow carrots,…
Democratizing the Digital Campus
Opening the Door to an Unbound (and Uncertain) Future in Higher Education Vanessa Elaine Greenwood, PhD. cross-posted from vitaeloca.org This academic year marks my twenty-fifth…
Breathing Through the Smoke
Image above is AI generated. Ideas below are human generated. Prefer to listen? This morning, the air over northwestern New Jersey carried the unmistakable smell…
Media Permaculture, Politics, and Bittersweet
Image above is AI generated. The ideas below are human generated. Prefer to listen? Since regeneratively homesteading in 2022 I have observed that not everything…
Why we fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts
In today’s digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information. In addition to actively searching online, they often come across health-related information on social media or receive it through emails or messages from family or friends. It can be tempting to share such messages with loved ones – often with the best of intentions.
Health Media Literacy is Core Curriculum
Navigating the current pandemic requires that young people acquire an increasingly complex set of skills, such as understanding statistical data, evaluating the credibility and truthfulness of health information, analyzing the risks and benefits of a particular treatment or vaccine, and interpreting test results. An essential skill in 2021 is health media literacy.