Socolow speaks about social media literacy on Reason Podcast
Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Reason Podcast. The show focused on strengthening social media literacy in an age of “fake news.” Socolow shared three rules that keep “smart people from spreading dumb ideas.” He also discussed past eras of moral panic and hysteria over new forms of media, such as the 1990s when television shows were attacked as anti-social even as they provided viewers new tools to critically process information overload just as cable TV and the internet became ubiquitous, according to the podcast description.