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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin

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The Center for Media Engagement leads efforts to understand and improve the information ecosystem for the benefit of democracy.

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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin@engagingnews.bsky.social · 9h ago

Great read from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social . As AI becomes more common in content creation, helping people understand the limits of detection tools—and the complexities of authorship and transparency—will be increasingly important.

Reuters Institute@reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 2w ago

As AI detection and certification systems gain users, can we really know for sure if a text was AI-generated? And does it matter? Read our new article featuring AI detectors, voluntary certifications of human authorship, and provenance tracking. buff.ly/8YNgDzz

Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin@engagingnews.bsky.social · yesterday

Appreciated this perspective @niemanfoundation.bsky.social Examining which stories receive attention—and which don't—is an important part of strengthening journalism and serving the public.

Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · 2w ago

The students’ investigation prompted a rare government response. Vidya Krishnan writes about what their investigation revealed, and how many mainstream outlets ignored or downplayed the story.

Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin@engagingnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Appreciated this perspective @brookings.edu . Communication isn't simply shifting from one channel to another—it's becoming more layered, with different channels serving different roles in people's everyday lives.

Brookings Institution@brookings.edu · 4w ago

Debates over USPS often center on its finances—but who actually relies on the mail, and for what? New research from Elena Patel, drawing on four decades of USPS data, finds mail remains critical for medications, voting, tax filing, and rural service access.

Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin@engagingnews.bsky.social · 3d ago

Interesting read from @wired.com and @datasociety.bsky.social . Looking back at ELIZA is a reminder that questions about how people relate to AI aren't new—but they remain just as relevant as these technologies become more sophisticated.

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · 3w ago

In an excerpt in @wired.com, the authors of "Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI" examine one of ELIZA’s earliest interactions and how it laid the groundwork for human relationships with computers for decades to come. www.wired.com/story/invent...

Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin@engagingnews.bsky.social · last wk.

Encouraging young people to read for pleasure is not only about literacy—it also helps build empathy, curiosity, and the ability to engage with perspectives beyond their own. Those skills matter deeply in today’s media environment.

Reading for pleasure builds empathy in children, but fewer kids are picking up books just for the fun of it - UMaine News - The University of Maine

By William Dee NicholsProfessor of Literacy, Language and Culture, University of Maine And Michelle KearneyProfessor of Literacy, University of Maine The following article was first published in The Conversation, an independent nonprofit news organization that shares faculty expert analysis with a global audience. Reading allows children to live in a…

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Center for Media Engagement - UT Austin@engagingnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great perspective from Brookings. As AI becomes more integrated into everyday life, an important question isn't just what these systems can do—but whether they help people retain meaningful agency, judgment, and control in their interactions with AI.

Context-maxxing: How to use generative AI without losing your mind

Taylor and Krishna explain in this Q&A how context-maxxing helps AI users reclaim control over their context, cognitive agency, and value from AI.

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