Nolan Higdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4492749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nolan Higdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nolan |
| FAMILY NAME | Higdon |
| SIGNATURE | HIGDON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, East Bay |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8989-3244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Dei in Name Only
Surveillance Education
Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. Recognizing that the use of digital technologies will persist, the authors instead offer practical ways to ameliorate their impact. In our era of surveillance capitalism, digital media technologies are ever more intertwined into the educational process. Schools are presented with digital technologies a…
Let's Agree to Disagree
Thank You to Reviewers
Today’s Fake News is Tomorrow’s Fake History
The main thrust of this study is to assess how the systematic biases found in mass media journalism affect the writing of history textbooks. There has been little attention paid to how the dissemination of select news information regarding the recent past, particularly from the 1990s through the War on Terror, influences the ways in which US history is taught in schools. This study employs a critical-historical lens with a media ecology framework…
Matthew Potolsky’s The National Security Sublime
Matthew Potolsky’s brilliantly woven The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy offers a powerful and engaging discussion of national security and government secrecy. His findings concerning the influence artists have on citizens’ perception of national security is a major contribution to the field. It highlights Americans false sense of awareness regarding government secrecy, that in itself enables government secrecy.…
Time to put your marketing cap on
Critical media literacy scholars have long argued, and documented, the ways in which corporate media literacy seeks to produce media consumers rather than more responsible media users. However, until this study, critical scholars have not performed a broad analysis of 21st century digital corporate media literacy content. Given educational institutions’ renewed interest in media literacy education, and transition to distance education during the …
Podcaster's Dilemma
The Anatomy of Fake News
United States of distraction
Written in the spirit of resistance and hope, United States of Distraction offers a clear, concise appraisal of our current situation, and presents readers with action items for how to improve it. "Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize what we can do today," says Ralph Nader in the foreword, "to restore the power of facts, truth, and fair, inclusive journalism as tools for people to keep political and corporate power subordinate to the engaged c…
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United States of distraction
Written in the spirit of resistance and hope, United States of Distraction offers a clear, concise appraisal of our current situation, and presents readers with action items for how to improve it. "Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize what we can do today," says Ralph Nader in the foreword, "to restore the power of facts, truth, and fair, inclusive journalism as tools for people to keep political and corporate power subordinate to the engaged c…
The Anatomy of Fake News
Today’s Fake News is Tomorrow’s Fake History
The main thrust of this study is to assess how the systematic biases found in mass media journalism affect the writing of history textbooks. There has been little attention paid to how the dissemination of select news information regarding the recent past, particularly from the 1990s through the War on Terror, influences the ways in which US history is taught in schools. This study employs a critical-historical lens with a media ecology framework…
Matthew Potolsky’s The National Security Sublime
Matthew Potolsky’s brilliantly woven The National Security Sublime: On the Aesthetics of Government Secrecy offers a powerful and engaging discussion of national security and government secrecy. His findings concerning the influence artists have on citizens’ perception of national security is a major contribution to the field. It highlights Americans false sense of awareness regarding government secrecy, that in itself enables government secrecy.…
Time to put your marketing cap on
Critical media literacy scholars have long argued, and documented, the ways in which corporate media literacy seeks to produce media consumers rather than more responsible media users. However, until this study, critical scholars have not performed a broad analysis of 21st century digital corporate media literacy content. Given educational institutions’ renewed interest in media literacy education, and transition to distance education during the …
Podcaster's Dilemma
Let's Agree to Disagree
Thank You to Reviewers
Surveillance Education
Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. Recognizing that the use of digital technologies will persist, the authors instead offer practical ways to ameliorate their impact. In our era of surveillance capitalism, digital media technologies are ever more intertwined into the educational process. Schools are presented with digital technologies a…
Dei in Name Only
Sociology (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Fake news (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)