Floyd, Nathaniel
Recent Submissions
Item The Boundaries of Student Success Librarianship
Floyd, Nate; Birkenhauer, LauraItem Demarcated: Scholastic Journalism, Collegiate Journalism and the Fight to Define Journalism Education
Cieslik-Miskimen, Caitlin; Floyd, NateFrom 1920 to 1939, university journalism educators engaged in boundary work to establish authority over journalism education. They sought to differentiate themselves from high school journalism, which challenged their status as the primary educational arena for future reporters. Their rhetoric positioned university programs as the sole legitimate pathway to journalism, marking a shift from a working-class ethos to an elite profession requiring a university degree, thereby redefining the field and preventing competition.Item Streaming media literacy: A theoretical solution to a practical problem
Floyd, Nate; Spraetz, JaclynTwo university instructors present a media literacy lesson for college students, inspired by Gerbner and Gross’s cultivation theory. Despite reduced live TV viewership, moving images remain influential. The session teaches critical analysis of films and TV, covering cultivation theory basics, content analysis, and collaborative learning strategies, empowering students to understand media consumption's impact on societal perceptions and the importance of representation.Item I’m Sensing Some Hostility: Teaching Students to Overcome Personal Biases When Evaluating Sources
Spraetz, Jaclyn; Floyd, NateItem Examining the academic success of underrepresented student groups: A collaboration between instructors and students
Fernandes, Joyce; Floyd, Nate; Adkins, Monica; Avila, Raychel; Castaneda Ceballos, Meirilys; Haus, LaurenItem Collaborating across institutional offices to provide access and opportunity for undergraduate research
Fernandes, Joyce; Floyd, Nate; Adkins, MonicaItem Developing informed digital news consumers in the era of misinformation
Miller, Lindsay; Presnell, Jenny; Floyd, NateItem Demystifying the fact-checking process: Using lateral reading with first-year students.
Floyd, Nate; Spraetz, JaclynItem Uncovering the protest paradigm through visual framing: A media literacy lesson for college students
Floyd, Nate; Spraetz, JaclynMuch is made of the proliferation of fake news in media literacy education. With good reason, we worry about unreliable news reporting and its effect on political participation. However, instruction that focuses on the most sensational attempts to hijack political discourse misses the more routine way in which reliable news reporting influences the political process. From horse race journalism to social justice movements, news professionals frame issues in particular ways, and those representations affect public opinion. Entman (1993) defines framing as the process of selecting “some aspects of a perceived reality and making them more salient in a communicating text in such a way as to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation” (p.19). In our presentation, we share an interactive lesson plan demonstrating how to teach students to make sense of media framing, social justice movements, and the protest paradigm. Using Associated Press images taken from the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, we teach students how to use framing theory to uncover protest paradigms in mainstream media. This lesson plan will foster a deeper engagement with social justice movements and the news media ecosystem. Teaching students about framing theory will equip them to unpack news stories in any medium and to critically engage in the subtleties of news production and its effects.Item Learning Apprenticeships in the Media and Information Literacy Classroom
Floyd, Nate; Spraetz, JaclynInspired by the apprenticeship model of teaching and learning, two academic librarians report on their efforts to place current events at the center of a semester-long media and information literacy course. Join them as they discuss strategies to harness curiosity about contemporary topics (e.g., misinformation, climate change, algorithms, right-to-repair, blockchain, etc.), create engagement-driven course content, and model for students the best ways to identify diverse, authoritative voices. Finally, the presenters will reflect on their experiences, discuss feedback from students and colleagues, and share a website to support both public and academic librarians who want to adopt a similar approach.Item News Literacy Concepts for First-Year Students
Floyd, Nate; Spraetz, JaclynSince first-year students are more likely to engage with mainstream news rather than fake news and disinformation, presenters in this session will introduce news literacy concepts and activities designed to help students better understand the mainstream news media ecosystem. First, presenters will introduce news literacy activities that foreground the unique ways legacy and emerging media outlets produce and disseminate news. Second, presenters will introduce news literacy activities inspired by the media effects research tradition, and shed light on the affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions of information processing. Finally, presenters will share readings and instructional materials with participants.