How To Be A Citizen: Media Literacy and Ballot Education

Pantsuit Politics

Sarah & Beth

Society & Culture, Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 4.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In the third installment of our How To Be A Citizen series, we talk about getting trustworthy information in a saturated news landscape. We discuss media literacy and how to find information about who and what is on your local ballot.

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0:00.0	Citizenship is a community act. Democracy gets its power from the people.
0:06.0	The shrinking of people participating in that process over time has landed us in a more polarized space.
0:14.0	This is How To Be a Citizen from Pantsypolitics. Over four episodes we talk about how to vote, how to debate,
0:20.0	how to think about our relationship to our government and our communities.
0:24.0	Join us as we think about what America and 2020 should be and what we should be to America.
0:30.0	Hi everyone, this is Megan from the Pantsypolitics Extrocredit Book Club.
0:36.0	And as we continue to speak with the How To Be a Citizen series, I want to invite you all to read with us.
0:41.0	The Extrocredit Book Club is a quarterly subscription with an independent bookstore in Franklin, Indiana, called Wild Geese Bookshop.
0:48.0	And that is something that my Indiana Hoosier Heart absolutely adores.
0:51.0	Every quarter, you will receive books on topics that Beth and Sarah are going to be discussing on the podcast.
0:57.0	And then all readers can join us on Facebook and Goodreads as we discuss books together.
1:01.0	So you don't need to be an extrocredit subscriber in order to be a part of these discussions.
1:05.0	Right now, for the How To Be a Citizen series, we are digging a deep dive into the Federalist papers.
1:10.0	I hope that you join us and I can't wait to read with you.
1:20.0	This is Sarah, and Beth, your name is Pantsypolitics, the home of Grace-filled political conversations.
1:26.0	Hello everyone, thanks for joining us for the third episode in our How To Be a Citizen series.
1:48.0	Okay, we have talked about the three branches of government, how America is designed, some of the assumptions in that design.
1:57.0	We have talked about how we are thinking big picture about our country and our values.
2:03.0	Today, we want to talk about being a citizen very holistically.
2:08.0	How do we engage with other citizens? How do we engage with media?
2:12.0	And then how do we engage with our ballots as we apply those principles?
2:17.0	You know, the first week we spent a lot of time thinking about the relationship between us as citizens and our government.
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