by LIS101 | Jul 25, 2019 | libguides, Research Skills, working with sources |
About this Hearing US Special Counsel Robert Mueller is testifying on Wednesday before two congressional committees about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by...
by LIS101 | Jun 26, 2019 | Assignments, Uncategorized |
Introduction You are writing a paper on the efficacy of vaccines and want to explore possible links between vaccination and autism. Look through the linked sources and decide which ones you will use. Learning Objectives Critically evaluate information. Task The Team...
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 | Nov 8, 2018 | Articles, video content |
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is accused of sharing a misleading video of CNN’s Jim Acosta from the conspiracy-theory website Infowars. A White House intern tried to take the microphone from Acosta during a heated exchange between the...
by LIS101 | Nov 2, 2018 | Articles |
USA TODAY followed the rapid spread of a social media conspiracy theory about George Soros and migrants that grew from obscurity to the political mainstream. BY: Brad Heath, Matt Wynn and Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY 2:27 p.m. CDT Oct. 31, 2018 This is the life of...
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 19, 2018 | lecture notes, Lesson Plans, Readings |
This overview of the materials in this class discusses generally: Why we see things differently. Why we don’t like to be wrong. Why it is dangerous to question authority. Where we got the letter A. The morbidity of Puritan children’s books. How culture and...
by LIS101 | Sep 11, 2018 | Blogs, libguides, Research Skills |
Propaganda is used to support a narrative in the public’s debate about how the world works, what everything means, and how we should think and act. In order to create and disseminate propaganda, these are the steps a propagandist might take. Incidentally, I am using...
by LIS101 | Mar 20, 2018 | Advocacy |
Rand Corp just released a substantive report on the US’s diminishing respect for facts and expert analysis. As it may relate to our teaching of information literacy, civic engagement, and critical thinking, I thought to highlight some passages to share. If you...
by LIS101 | Mar 20, 2018 | Readings |
By — Rashmi Shivni Over the past two weeks, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian individuals and three companies for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The spotlight fell on one company, the Internet Research Agency and its so-called...
by LIS101 | Mar 9, 2018 | Advocacy, Articles |
BuzzFeed’s fake-news reporter outlines some of the dangers ahead: “We have a human problem on our hands. Our cognitive abilities are in some ways overmatched by what we have created.” For me, this example encompasses so much about the current reality of media and...
by LIS101 | Feb 13, 2018 | Readings, Research Skills |
Resources compiled by Nicole A. Cooke, for the Fake News Workshop presented at the iSchool at the University of Illinois – February 1, 2017. Read more!
by LIS101 | Nov 18, 2017 | Readings |
BY PEW RESEARCH CENTER: JOURNALISM & MEDIA STAFF Overview A Study of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Princeton Survey Research Associates What are the narrative techniques journalists use to frame the news? Do some stories contain discernible...
by LIS101 | Nov 11, 2017 | Articles |
In the months before the Bundestag election, there was a lot of fear that disinformation might influence voters. It is clear that the worst-case scenario has not become reality: experts generally agree that such information did not largely affect the election outcome....
by LIS101 | Oct 17, 2017 | Readings, Video Content and Multimedia |
This short presentation touches on historiography, narratives, tradition, memes, and culture and speculates about the impact of culture on information literacy. Culture and Information PDF Culture and...
by LIS101 | Sep 12, 2017 | Research Skills |
You can find some interesting things on the Internet (and in Canada). Use research and visual literacy skills to determine which products are real and which are fake. Ketchup Doritos? Sounds weird to Americans, but quick searches at retail websites,...
by LIS101 | Mar 15, 2017 | Readings, Research Skills |
One example of how businesses use information is seen in the “environmental scan,” which is a concept that has existed since the 1960s. The idea is that organizations should keep an eye on the “environment” in order to make informed decisions about future challenges....
by LIS101 | Jan 26, 2017 | libguides, Readings |
Definitions and Explanations A primary source is an original object or document from a specific time or event under study. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, interviews, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, survey data,...
by LIS101 | Dec 8, 2016 | Readings, Research Skills |
Fake news is in the headlines, and already a phalanx of tech-savvy students have come to our rescue by creating apps to root out verified and unverified stories. The effort is commendable, and the technology impressive. Unfortunately, the problem is harder to solve...
by LIS101 | Nov 19, 2016 | Research Skills |
A skilled writer may defy any of these ethical considerations without his audience being able to spot it. Below are listed additional caveats that may not necessarily mean that a source is inaccurate, irrelevant, or otherwise unusable, but which should definitely...