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 | Oct 23, 2018 | Readings |
By: TIM MAK With midterm elections just two weeks away, Facebook says it is ramping up its operations to fight disinformation. The social media behemoth has established a “war room” at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., where specialists try to detect...
by LIS101 | Sep 21, 2018 | Readings |
September 21, 20185:00 AM ET Author: TIM MAK Russian social media agitators who pushed pro-gun messages in the United States sometimes copied the language of the National Rifle Association. And sometimes, the NRA copied them. What isn’t clear is whether...
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 | Jan 25, 2018 | Advocacy, video content, Video Content and Multimedia, Webpages |
Burger King explains net neutrality. Read PCGamer for more....
by LIS101 | Aug 25, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Analysts tracking Russian influence operations find a feedback loop between Kremlin propaganda and far-right memes. by Isaac Arnsdorf Angee Dixson joined Twitter on Aug. 8 and immediately began posting furiously — about 90 times a day. A self-described...
by LIS101 | Mar 7, 2017 | Articles, Readings, Uncategorized |
By Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOOK the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption to explain the unanticipated victory—with theories ranging from...
by LIS101 | Feb 25, 2017 | Pedagogy, Readings |
The 21st Annual Illinois Community College Assessment Fair was excellent, and Norbert Elliot’s keynote questioning the traditional values of assessment, such as validity and reliability, and proposing more attention to fairness in design, was extremely...
by LIS101 | Jul 5, 2016 | Readings, Uncategorized |
A Facebook newsfeed can be a dangerous place to get your information. Note for instance the coverage of the FBI probe regarding Hillary Clinton’s email use as Secretary of State. In a single newsfeed I captured three articles, two of which say she will be indicted...
by LIS101 | May 29, 2016 | Articles |
Todd J. Wiebe writes: “Now he would prowl the stacks of the library at night, pulling books out of a thousand shelves and reading in them like a madman. The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know—the...
by LIS101 | May 18, 2016 | Blogs |
John Keegan writes: Recent posts from sources where the majority of shared articles aligned “very liberal” (blue, on the left) and “very conservative” (red, on the right) in a large Facebook study. In 2015, the journal Science published a research paper by Facebook...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
A few years ago, Eli Pariser gave a talk about how algorithms and social media shape what we know. I focused on the dangers of the “filter bubble” — the personalized universe of information that makes it into our feed — and argued that news-filtering algorithms narrow...
by LIS101 | Jan 11, 2016 |
Module 5: Information Online Introduction Since the dawn of the information age, people have been concerned about information overload, which is the stress people feel when they are exposed to so much information that it becomes impossible to think about it clearly....