Alterea, Inc.

Although the internet is an indispensable digital environment for communication and information, it can also be a vehicle that presents misleading or even false information. Many schools lack media literacy interventions for students to be prepared as citizens with the skills to identify misinformation. This project team will fully develop Agents of Influence, a web-based video game for middle and high school students to promote digital literacy and resilience to misinformation.

While the internet is an indispensable digital environment for communication and information, it can also be a vehicle that presents misleading or even false information. Many schools lack interventions that provide media literacy education for students to be prepared as citizens with the skills identify misinformation. This project will develop a prototype of Agents of Influence, a web-based video game for middle and high school students to promote digital literacy and resilience to misinfo...