Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting Social Media & News Stories

by Erik Bean, Gail Gorske (Illustrator), Sherry Wexler (Editor), Tim Vos (Other)

Overview

Bias Is All Around You!  Can you separate fact from fiction to safeguard your mental health?  Let our handbook be your guide for inspecting all the information you are exposed to in social media today. If you cannot properly assess information bias, it could:

1. Lead you to follow a false cause
2. Leave you feeling foolish
3. Tarnish your credibility
4. Attract the wrong people
5. Create undue stress
6. Compromise your values
7. Harm your mental health

These undesirable outcomes need not occur! For it's time to read between the lines and assess bias now! Together, we can chart a new discourse, one that uses information wisely, with prudence, and goodwill.

Join Erik Bean as he takes you on a rigorous yet introspective journey to snuff out bias, to understand algorithms that affect internet and social media information and provide you simple assessment tools that allow you to be more confident if you use the information and share it. Foreword written by Tim Vos, Ph.D., Director, School of Journalism, Michigan State University. Award-Winning Illustrator Gail Gorske provides relevant and brilliant handcut paper images.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162347910
Publisher:	Ethan Bean Mental Wellness Foundation
Publication date:	08/10/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

ERIK BEAN

Erik holds a master’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University and a doctorate in education with sanctioned research interests in cultural competence, leadership, and mental health. He is a section editor of The Journal of Leadership Studies, John Wiley & Sons and founder of the Ethan Bean Mental Wellness Foundation, a Michigan 501(c)3 public charity. Other recent book projects include the award-winning Ethan’s Healthy Mind Express: A Children’s First Mental Health Primer and co-author of the self-help series 20/20 Prudent Leadership.

GAIL GORSKE

Illustrator Gail Gorske is a master paper art professional whose award-winning illustrations include nature photography and those found in Ethan's Healthy Mind Express and the 20/20 Prudent Leadership book series. Her images have inspired generations to critically think and cross all boundaries of race, religion, gender, and nationalities.

SHERRY WEXLER

Editor Sherry Wexler holds an L.M.S.W. She is a graduate of Wayne State University. Her editing work includes the award-winning book Ethan’s Healthy Mind Express.

TIM VOS

With over 4,000 citations referencing his work on Gatekeeping Theory, journalism's role in democracy, and media criticism, foreword contributor, Dr. Vos is director of the School of Journalism, Michigan State University.