Endless Coffee Cup Podcast With Nolan Higdon & Matt Bailey
The Intersection of Media Literacy, Free Speech, and Journalism in the Digital Age
In this episode of the Endless Coffee Cup podcast, host Matt Bailey welcomes frequent guest Nolan Higdon, a professor of history, media studies, and education. They discuss the implications of free speech, censorship, and the polarization of American culture since the Reagan era. Also covered is the rise of media literacy in education, particularly the disparity between the U.S. and Europe, and the challenges and successes in teaching media literacy locally. Nolan shares insights on the impact of social media algorithms, the benefits of Substack for journalism, and how modern students are engaging with journalism and media in meaningful ways. The conversation underscores the importance of engaging with conflicting viewpoints and the need for principled stances in both education and free speech.
Matt Bailey brings marketing know-how along with extensive B2B and B2C Sales experience. His training merges sales and marketing goals to produce a more dynamic, efficient and accountable strategy. He has a passion to produce confident and profitable marketers, who in turn, create profitable companies. Since 1998, Matt has presented at thousands of companies, conferences and workshops. He is one of the highest-rated presenters world-wide for his ability to communicate complex information in a practical humorous way.
Nolan Higdon is a author, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, Project Censored National Judge, and founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. Higdon’s areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon’s work is available at Substack (https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education (2020); Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy (2022); The Media And Me: A Guide To Critical Media Literacy For Young People (2022); and the forthcoming Surveillance Education: Navigating the conspicuous absence of privacy in schools (Routledge). Higdon is a regular source of expertise for CBS, NBC, The New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle.