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MEDIA LITERACY
LEARN HOW TO CONTACT REPRESENTATIVES
APA Guide to Writing to Your Representative
Writing to Your Elected Representatives
Find your Senators. Who are they? What do they stand for?
Write your Senators to express your views on the upcoming impeachment vote
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EXPLORE MEDIA MINDFULNESS
Before Your Scroll, Try this Mindful Social Media Practice
How Mindfulness Can Free Us from Our Social Media Tribe
Listen to the Mindfulness for Beginners
Listen to The Joy Factor
Guide to screen addictions and responsible digital use
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We need political parties. But their rabid partisanship could destroy American democracy article by Vox
The Disunited States: How partisan politics is polarising the US article by AlJazeera
U.S. Media Polarization and the 2020 Election: A Nation Divided
America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: It’s working exactly as designed. In this book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us — and how we are polarizing it — with disastrous results.
Learn about the voting restrictions in place in your state.
Learn about the law suits taking place across the country to protect our elections, tracked by the Healthy Elections Project.
Digital Media Literacy Education and Online Civic and Political Participation
Best Apps for Teaching Media Literacy
Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation
Divided Politics: Divided Nation. The United States is caught in a partisan hyper conflict that divides politicians, communities—and even families. Politicians from the president to state and local office-holders play to strongly-held beliefs and sometimes even pour fuel on the resulting inferno. This polarization has become so intense that many people no longer trust anyone from a differing perspective.
Trump Impeachment Efforts Live
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Social Media and Politics is a popular science podcast bringing you first-hand insights into how social media is changing the political game.
Listen to the Democracy Work Podcasts from Penn State McCourtney Institute for Democracy/The Democracy Group
Unpacking Political Polarization
Citizenship, patriotism, and democracy in the classroom
Jonathan Haidt on the psychology of democracy
Demagogues are more common than you think
How conspiracies are damaging democracy
From political crisis to profound change
Is it possible to overdo democracy?
Reason in politics and hope for democracy
Media Literacy and Media Bias: Part 1
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