by LIS101 | Jun 4, 2019 | Advocacy, Blogs, global warming, Interviews, lecture notes, libguides, Readings, video content, Video Content and Multimedia |
This overview begins by talking about the political spectrum in the US and then describes the various biases of different news outlets. Attention is paid to different expressions and types of bias. After the relationship between politics and mass media is more fully...
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 | 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 3, 2018 | Readings |
By Caroline Haskins Nov 1 2018, 11:19pm A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration (Read...
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 | 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 27, 2018 | Search Tools |
These documents were prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). CRS serves as nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress. The CRS’s Mission and Vision Statements: The CRS operates solely at the behest of and under the...
by LIS101 | Sep 21, 2018 | Readings |
By Dylan Matthews August 23, 2011 On Monday, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced the elimination of 83 regulations, including one of the agency’s most famous: the Fairness Doctrine. What is the Fairness Doctrine, and why is it gone?What it was: The Fairness...
by LIS101 | Sep 21, 2018 | Readings |
Reuters Institute Fellowship Paper University of Oxford By Mikal Hem Trinity Term 2014 Sponsor: Fritt Ord Foundation Since the end of World War II many parts of the world have steadily grown in a more democratic direction. But these young democracies do not always...
by LIS101 | Sep 21, 2018 | Advocacy, Readings |
Everything you need to know about the struggle to treat information on the internet the same—ISPs shouldn’t be able to block some sorts of data and prioritize others. AUTHOR: KLINT FINLEY NET NEUTRALITY IS the idea that internet service providers like Comcast...
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 | Readings |
By Elizabeth Shogren / September 10, 2018 Park officials scrubbed all mentions of climate change from a key planning document for a New England national park after they were warned to avoid “sensitive language that may raise eyebrows” with the Trump...
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 | Jun 19, 2018 | Readings |
JUNE 18, 2018 Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements BY AMY...
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 | Jan 25, 2018 | Advocacy, video content, Video Content and Multimedia, Webpages |
Burger King explains net neutrality. Read PCGamer for more....
by LIS101 | Nov 28, 2017 | Advocacy, Blogs, Pedagogy |
To the University of Nebraska Community: We are concerned that at the highest levels of the University of Nebraska system, decisions involving the future of the University are being made without transparency or proper governance and under improper exertions of...