On Friday, March 25, at 6 p.m., Toadstool Bookshops will host a free online Zoom event with authors Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff, discussing their new book “Let’s Agree To Disagree.”
To register, go to toadbooks.com/Agree_To_Disagree.
In an age defined by divisive discourse and disinformation, “Let’s Agree to Disagree” seeks to reverse these trends by fostering constructive dialogue through critical thinking and critical media literacy. This text introduces readers to theories, case studies and easily strategies for becoming sharper critical thinkers, more-effective communicators and critically media literate citizens.
Higdon is a lecturer at Merrill College and the education department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His areas of concentration include digital culture, news media history and critical media literacy. He is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas and sits on the boards of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) and Northwest Alliance For Alternative Media and Education.
Higdon’s most-recent publications include “The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education” and “The Podcaster’s Dilemma: Decolonizing Podcasters in the Era of Surveillance Capitalism.” He is a longtime contributor to Project Censored’s annual book, “Censored.” In addition, he has been a contributor to Truthout and CounterPunch and a source of expertise for numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, CNBC and the San Francisco Chronicle.
Huff is the director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. To date, he has co-edited 13 editions of the project’s yearbook, including most recently Project Censored’s “State of the Free Press 2022,” with Andy Lee Roth. He is also co-author, with Higdon, of “United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It).”
He received the Beverly Kees Educator Award as part of the 2019 James Madison Freedom of Information Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California. He is professor of social science, history and journalism at Diablo Valley College, where he co-chairs the history program and is chair of the journalism department. Huff is executive producer and host of “The Project Censored Show,” a weekly syndicated public affairs program that airs across the United States on Pacifica Radio. Learn more at projectcensored.org.