by LIS101 | Apr 7, 2019 | global warming, information malpractice, Readings, Research Skills, rubrics, Webpages, working with sources |
Posted on 27 November 2011 by John Cook at skepticalscience.com The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation, is now freely available to download. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of...
by LIS101 | Feb 8, 2019 | Readings, Webpages, Wiki |
A quick Google search will return many hits imploring that Wikipedia is as accurate as any traditional encyclopedia. Nature first compared Wikipedia to Encyclopedia Britannica in 2005 and found the two sources comparably reliable. Other sources disagree and state...
by LIS101 | Oct 17, 2018 | Readings, Webpages |
So, if we accept the premise that media are influential in setting the public agenda, we also must understand the various devices media use to report—or more specifically, frame—the news. Media framing analysis goes beyond identifying which issues (and aspects of...
by LIS101 | Sep 7, 2018 | Webpages |
ZEKE HAUSFATHER 05.10.2017 | 5:00pm Scientists have been making projections of future global warming using climate models of increasing complexity for the past four decades. These models, driven by atmospheric physics and biogeochemistry, play an important role...
by LIS101 | Jan 25, 2018 | Advocacy, video content, Video Content and Multimedia, Webpages |
Burger King explains net neutrality. Read PCGamer for more....
by LIS101 | Sep 5, 2017 | Webpages |
https://medium.com/@EqualityLabs/anti-doxing-guide-for-activists-facing-attacks-from-the-alt-right-ec6c290f543c Hey Movement Fam, It is the folks from Equality Labs and we have an urgent Anti-Doxing guide to support the activists who are getting slammed by Alt-right...
by LIS101 | Jan 24, 2017 | Readings, Webpages |
AllSides claims to “expose bias and provides multiple angles on the same story,” so readers can better understand the full context of a story. The website hosts stories from across the political spectrum so that readers can make side-by-side comparisons. ...
by LIS101 | Jun 18, 2016 | Assignments, Webpages |
The instruction librarians at John M. Pfau Library have listed useful information literacy assignments according to their library instruction outcomes. I especially like the assignments for Effective Searching, which offers a collaborative approach to keyword...
by LIS101 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Webpages |
Dr Biljana Scott’s article on framing an argument introduces the linguistic and rhetoric aspects of persuasion. The way in which we frame an issue largely determines how that issue will be understood and acted upon. By dissecting Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech...
by LIS101 | Jun 2, 2016 | Webpages |
In a world of information overload, it is vital for students to be able to find information on the Web, as well as to determine its validity and appropriateness. NovemberLearning’s web literacy materials provide some useful tools for teaching students about...
by LIS101 | May 21, 2016 | Webpages |
Scholarly communication is the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community and beyond. Traditionally scholarly communication has occurred in the formal...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Webpages |
Today, students are able to compare the cost of college with other significant data points, such as graduation rates and average salaries of graduates to determine where to get the most bang for their buck. Communities can finally map demographic, income, and school...