Media Literacy

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Media of all genres shapes our lifestyles, opinions, political views, and how we tend to our civic responsibilities. Now more than ever, consumers are inundated with digital media, news, and information that’s often distributed and reposted without fact-checking or any investigative reporting. For us to have autonomy in a world inundated with AI, deepfakes, and corporate and political agendas that drive mainstream news, we need to continuously cultivate our critical thinking skills. Through media literacy training consumers have an opportunity to evolve into interrogators. This is part and parcel to peace, justice, and building a better world together.

Afeef Nessouli

Afeef Nessouli is a producer at The Slow Factory and currently hosts “With Afeef Nessouli”, a social media space that curates the day’s most important news about war, revolutions and characters changing the world. He also teaches Individual Research and Social Media at Parsons., Afeef produced The Journal, the Wall Street Journal’s flagship daily news podcast for Spotify for three years with podcasts about Covid-19 to Chinese policy, from American inflation to global tech innovation. Before this, Afeef won the Google Podcasts creator program’s global competition in 2018. He produced an Arabic language podcast that focused on the feminine undercurrent during the Lebanese uprising. It covered sisters working with imprisoned men in Muslim militia groups and resistance armies and the LGBTQ+ community. Afeef was also a segment producer for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and CNN. Before producing news, Afeef was a legal advisor to Jimmy Carter’s Syrian conflict resolution team in Oslo and the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur for the Committee Against Torture in Geneva.