What is the difference between indoctrination and education? How are coercion and free will implicated in our understanding of these different types of socialization? Learn more: www.mindovermedia.tv

Conspiracy theories are addictive. They immerse people in a search for hidden secrets. Holocaust denial, QAnon, and antivax/coronavirus conspiracy theories abound. Questions to consider: What makes conspiracy theories hard to disprove? Are they a form of harmful propaganda, a form of political expression, or just a weird form of play? How should conspiracy theories be regulated by platforms and governments? Learn more with the free online learning path created by Renee Hobbs, author of Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age: www.mindovermedia.us/online-learning

When people think of election propaganda, they think about the political ads that politicians broadcast. But today, ordinary people create and share propaganda, often tailoring messages designed to be appealing to a specific grou of people. Can you spot peer-to-peer propaganda? Read Mind Over Media, a new book on propaganda education by Renee Hobbs Learn more: www.mindovermedia.us

This "how to" video introduces an assignment where students learn to analyze political advertising using the Facebook Ad Library.

Introducing the international version of Mind Over Media, an online platform for analyzing contemporary propaganda.

A brief look at a great article from the New York Times, which compares textbooks to examine how propaganda is embedded in the partisan of history and literature. Read the whole article here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/12/us/texas-vs-california-history-textbooks.html?searchResultPosition=1