Short Educational Videos Improve Older Adults’ Digital Literacy and Information Diets at Scale
Guest speaker Ryan Moore (UT Austin)
Event Details
Date
Friday, March 20, 2026
Time
12-2 p.m.
Location
Nafziger Conference Room (5055), Vilas Hall
Description
Online deception disproportionately affects older adults, threatening individual and democratic health while causing substantial financial losses. We developed short digital literacy videos for older adults teaching lateral reading, reading upstream, and reverse image search. A field experiment in which videos were run as ads on YouTube improved skill comprehension among 300,000 older Americans, demonstrating that these interventions enhance older adults' digital literacy.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email dahlke2@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Friday, March 6, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.