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 | Mar 19, 2019 | video content |
Feb 2, 2015 7:50 PM EDT A measles outbreak has reached 14 states and infected more than 100 people. The disease had been considered eradicated in the U.S., but parents’ skepticism about the safety and usefulness of vaccines in recent years has made room for measles to...
by LIS101 | Feb 21, 2019 | Uncategorized |
Klein ISD administrators issued a statement Tuesday detailing how students in a digital citizenship curriculum course were tasked with creating a false story in order to show the effect “fake news” has through online media. A screenshot of one...
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 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 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 | Jan 25, 2018 | Assignments, Blogs, Lesson Plans |
Desired Outcomes Student recognizes the need to accurately record information about a source as a means of establishing credibility. Student recognizes that different kinds of authority produce different kinds of information. Student seeks out the author’s...
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 | Aug 29, 2017 | Articles |
Explosive allegations about Donald Trump made by online writers with large followings among Trump critics were based on bogus information from a hoaxer who falsely claimed to work in law enforcement. (Read more in The Guardian)
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 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Uncategorized |
In a perfect world, facts and information would be presented objectively so that people could make rational, educated decisions. Unfortunately, information is rarely bestowed in such a pristine manner. Instead, it is often presented in the form of argumentation, in...
by LIS101 | May 23, 2016 | Articles |
Leon Neyfakh writes: Late last year, Russian newspapers reported what would have qualified as a stunning piece of news almost anywhere else: The chairman of the country’s largest parliamentary body had been exposed as a plagiarist. Sergei Naryshkin, the former chief...
by LIS101 | May 16, 2016 | Research Skills |
Malpractice is defined as improper, illegal, or negligent activity. In the realm of research, here are some examples of information malpractice: Plagiarism It should go without saying that copying work that is not your own and/or using sources without attribution will...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
If you’ve followed coverage of presidential campaign issues — and the Supreme Court vacancy is most definitely a campaign issue — then you’ve almost certainly seen a Founding Father invoked to make a point recently. Read more at the Washington Post ...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
There is not a lot of money in African journalism. As an African journalist, I know this all too well. An example: I was in South Sudan in November, on a trip I was financing myself. Weeks in flea-ridden hostels culminated in a four-day stay at a refugee camp near the...