One Book Event: Making Sense of the News During an Infodemic

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 Join us Monday, October 18, 2021 at noon for...

“Making Sense of the News During an Infodemic” with Jonathan Anzalone

Register here: https://vccs.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NNFnAp2lSW6v9LW6uDuE4A

"Health misinformation is a serious threat to public health.... Limiting the spread of health misinformation is a moral and civic imperative that will require a whole-of-society effort." - US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (July 2021)

In today's day and age, people are reporting that they feel overwhelmed by the constant flow of news and trying to sort out which news sources and articles are reliable.

Jonathon Anzalone, assistant director for the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook's school of Communication and Journalism, feels that having a set of critical thinking skills mobilized in the pursuit of reliable information is vital to our overcoming this infodemic and the overwhelm it causes.

Jonathan is also a lecturer in Stony Brook's School of Communication and he teaches history and journalism courses for the School of Professional Development. Jonathan has taught for the Stony Brook History Department, the School of Professional Development, the Program in Writing & Rhetoric, the Graduate Program in Public Health, and the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care & Bioethics, as well as Farmingdale State College, Suffolk Community College, and SUNY College at Old Westbury. He is the author of Battles of the North Country: Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920-1980.