Muhammad Akram holds a PhD from Concordia University in Montreal and an MA from Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. His research focuses on the critical social media literacy to prevent and counter violent radicalism online. He has published over 20 refereed journal articles on similar issues, some of which have been cited in major media, including The New York Times. Furthermore, he’s an Atlas Corps alumnus of the U.S. Department of State’s Emerging Global Leaders Initiative and has over a decade of research and evaluation fieldwork in fragile contexts.
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Now you can participate in online dialogue with people from across the country and around the world with "Your Turn to Talk," a digital interactive learning experience made especially for Renee Hobbs' book, Media Literacy in Action, 2nd edtion.Â
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Over the past year, I’ve received a steady stream of email requests—many from researchers in the Philippines—asking permission to use a “media literacy scale by Renee Hobbs.”Â
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