2026 Reports

“/imagine [PROMPT]” : A Chat with @MidJourneyBot, or 10 Provocations for the Future of Media Literacy

Literat, Ioana

In this series of ten multimodal dialogues with the @MidJourneyBot, Ioana Literat, Associate Professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design at Teachers College, Columbia University, explores the current and future states of media literacy and misinformation. These fluid dialogic explorations prompt the audience to think more about how communication forms related to human-computer interaction are currently taking shape—particularly in light of how generative AI, online dialogues, and the constantly evolving nature of conversation itself are being impacted.

Keywords: generative AI (genAI), media literacy, digital literacy, communication and education