About the Project

Fierce Mustang Media group is the student-run content creation and media production firm of San Joaquin Delta College. Our mission is to provide students with experiential learning opportunities with flexibility, allowing students who may not have been able to complete an internship off campus due to other obligations to do so through a campus-based firm. As part of that drive, we also focus on digital media literacy. San Joaquin County only has one remaining daily newspaper and only satellite broadcast news outlets calling the community home. This proposal looks to take our trained, media savvy students into San Joaquin County to talk about misinformation, digital media literacy, and ethical use of media to middle and high school students as well as the community. Students in the Multimedia programs at Delta College (Mass Communication/Journalism and Digital Media specifically), will work to create tangible print deliverables and a digital media toolkit for the community to be distributed to community members during presentations that include a hands-on component for learners. The purpose is to expose students to digital media devices while giving them the basis on how to navigate a very crowded media sphere where misinformation is problematic.