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Nolan Higdon

San Francisco
As seen in: Substack, Savage Minds, CounterPunch, The Real News, LIVE! From City Lights, Dissident Voice, Shepherd Express, ZNetwork, ScheerPost
Covers:  Disinformation, Media History, Big-Tech, Tech Culture, Surveillance Capitalism, Podcasting, Digital Culture, Politics, Social Media, Education, and Media Literacy
Sarcastic Scholar, Author, & Lecturer. Researches disinformation, Critical Media Literacy, Digital Culture, and News Media with @ProjectCensored, @UCSC
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Journalistic Malpractice on Trial:

Journalistic Malpractice on Trial:

Substack — This article was originally published at Project Censored. "This is direct evidence of knowing falsity" exclaimed RonNell Anderson Jones, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, in a February 2023 interview with Jon Stewart.
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California Won't Do Business With Walgreens Over Abortion Pills

California Won't Do Business With Walgreens Over Abortion Pills

KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — California "won't be doing business with Walgreens" after the company said it will ban selling abortion pills by mail in 20 states, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday on Twitter. Newsom in a tweet added the state will not be doing business with "any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women's lives at risk.
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From Russiagate with Love:

From Russiagate with Love:

Substack — A January 2023 publication from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) spawned the latest round of spin and shifting baselines from Russiagate apologists. Russiagate refers to the claims that Russia meddled in and influenced the outcome of the U.S. election in 2016, had direct connections to Donald Trump and his associates, and worked to help defeat Hillary Clinton for the presidency.
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Santa Clara Co. Sheriff's Office deletes Valentine's Day tweet, apologizes after backlash

Santa Clara Co. Sheriff's Office deletes Valentine's Day tweet, apologizes after backlash

KGO-TV (San Francisco, CA) — SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- An attempt at humor goes horribly wrong for the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. A tweet, which has since been deleted by the department, playfully offered to take people with outstanding warrants to jail as a Valentine's Day gift.
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STFU about ChatGPT: - Censored Notebook

STFU about ChatGPT: - Censored Notebook

projectcensored.org — By Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler ChatGPT has sent shockwaves through higher education, creating a moral panic about the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the classroom. As critical media literacy scholars , we are not panicking, and we do not think any educator should.
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The Professional Managerial Class Strikes Back!

The Professional Managerial Class Strikes Back!

Savage Minds — The increasing shift to remote work in higher education has threatened the power and influence of the professional managerial class (PMC). In response, the PMC are throwing everything at the wall from baseless claims about work productivity to coercive policies to cement their power over faculty.
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Lecturer of history and media studies, Nolan Higdon, on how to agree to disagree

Lecturer of history and media studies, Nolan Higdon, on how to agree to disagree

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Why Americans can't debate politics anymore | The Chris Hedges Report

Why Americans can't debate politics anymore | The Chris Hedges Report

YouTube — Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their new book, Let's Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy. Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in media studies and history at California State University, East Bay.
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How Corporate Media Fueled Trump's Rise

How Corporate Media Fueled Trump's Rise

The Real News — Co-author Nolan Higdon discusses "United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It)." JAISAL NOOR: Welcome to The Real News. I'm Jaisal Noor. Are we too distracted to preserve democracy? Well, that's the thesis of a new book.
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VIDEO: Cal State East Bay history professor on removal of 'offensive' statues

VIDEO: Cal State East Bay history professor on removal of 'offensive' statues

KRON-TV (San Francisco, CA) — SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - Dr. Nolan Higdon is a history professor at Cal State East Bay. This statue movement started with those honoring the Confederacy, and now, we are seeing expand beyond that. KRON4's Steve Aveson sits down with Dr. Higdon to talk about "offensive" statues being removed across the country.
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President Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin - CSU professor offers his take

President Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin - CSU professor offers his take

KGO-TV (San Francisco, CA) — In an extraordinary embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump on Monday openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' firm finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to his benefit, seeming to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin's insistence that Moscow's hands were clean.
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Looking Ahead: Will VP Kamala Harris Run for President in 2024?

Looking Ahead: Will VP Kamala Harris Run for President in 2024?

KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA) — With the vice president in town and the big money fundraiser in Los Gatos Thursday, the talk about Kamala Harris running for president in 2024 won't go away. NBC Bay Area's Raj Mathai spoke to Nolan Higdon, professor of media studies and history at Cal State East Bay for some insight.
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NBC Bay Area News Tonight : KNTV : April 14, 2022 7:00pm-7:30pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : I...

NBC Bay Area News Tonight : KNTV : April 14, 2022 7:00pm-7:30pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : I...

Violent Delights — next on nbc bay area news tonight, the rain is here, and it's just a preview of what's to come for this easter weekend. jeff ranieri breaks down how much more rain we're getting tonight and the hour-by-hour look at when the next storm arrives. also, a 16-year-old girl is dead.
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KTVU Mornings on 2 : KTVU : July 9, 2022 7:00am-10:00am PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet ...

KTVU Mornings on 2 : KTVU : July 9, 2022 7:00am-10:00am PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet ...

Violent Delights — Starting the day with news from the Bay Area and around the world. Continuously updated developments on the day's biggest news stories, plus accurate weather...
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KRON 4 News at 5pm : KRON : April 25, 2022 5:00pm-5:30pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet...

KRON 4 News at 5pm : KRON : April 25, 2022 5:00pm-5:30pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet...

Violent Delights — i'm rooting for you. ♪ ♪ >> from the bay area's local news station. you're watching kron. 4 news at all. >> tonight at 5, the richest man in the world strikes a deal to acquire one of the largest and most powerful social media platforms. twitter, the price tag.
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ABC7 News 5:00PM : KGO : July 15, 2022 5:00pm-5:30pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Arc...

ABC7 News 5:00PM : KGO : July 15, 2022 5:00pm-5:30pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Arc...

Violent Delights — The ABC 7 News Team presents Bay Area viewers with the latest news, traffic, weather, sports & more.
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ABC7 News 4:00PM : KGO : July 27, 2022 4:00pm-5:00pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Arc...

ABC7 News 4:00PM : KGO : July 27, 2022 4:00pm-5:00pm PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Arc...

Violent Delights — The ABC 7 News Team presents Bay Area viewers with the latest news, traffic, weather, sports & more.
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Strangers are spying on your child. And schools are paying them to do it.

Strangers are spying on your child. And schools are paying them to do it.

USA Today — Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon Students are now returning to classrooms that are so wired with surveillance and monitoring technology that they may begin to see George Orwell's "1984" as an aspirational tale. In Orwell's novel, a tightly controlled public is plied with government propaganda and watched over by telescreens.
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Hunting the Twitter Files

Hunting the Twitter Files

Savage Minds — More than two years since Big Tech made the historic decision to limit access to the New York Post's story about President Joe Biden's son Hunter, users are getting a glimpse into how Twitter came to that decision. However, delusional legacy and social media outlets are doing everything they can to misrepresent and bury the consequential details of the process.
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The Media and Me by Ben Boyington, Allison T. Butler, Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth: 9...

The Media and Me by Ben Boyington, Allison T. Butler, Nolan Higdon, Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth: 9...

Penguin Random House (US) — "A work that comprehensively surveys the knowledge and skills that encompass not only critical media literacy, but the broader corpus of media literacy and its various subdisciplines. The Media and Me will excite, sometimes overwhelm, and always challenge both educators and students to think differently about the media they encounter and consume.
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The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism

The Podcaster's Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA (Online) — A fascinating exploration of modern podcasting as a tool for decolonization In The Podcasters Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism, Drs. Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham III connect contemporary podcasting to the broader history of the use of radio technology in the service of anti-colonial struggle and revolution.
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United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and What We Can Do about ...

United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and What We Can Do about ...

City Lights — A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize what we can do today to restore the power of facts, truth, and fair, inclusive journalism as tools for people to keep political and corporate power subordinate...
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Promoting Falsehoods and Marginalizing Truth-Tellers - scheerpost.com

Promoting Falsehoods and Marginalizing Truth-Tellers - scheerpost.com

ScheerPost — By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff / Project Censored The Washington Post's coverage of a January 2023 study arguing that the post-2016 coverage of Russia election meddling may have been overblown, reveals a corrosive trend in legacy news media where the personalities and outlets that perpetuate inaccurate or false news are rewarded, and the truth-tellers who expose legacy media lies are marginalized and ostracized.
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The Anatomy of Fake News

The Anatomy of Fake News

ucpress.edu — Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the definition of fake news or its origins.
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