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 | 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 15, 2016 | Blogs |
Max Ehrenfreund writes about doctored photographs of President Obama. American politics always has surprises, but things have been especially unpredictable since President Obama took office. First, few observers were prepared for the tea party movement, which ousted...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Video Content and Multimedia |
Media scholar Marty Kaplan sits with Bill Moyers to discuss how and why major news media, including Fox News and CNN, choose to ignore critical news and information about climate change — leaving comedy shows like The Daily Show and The Late Show to pick up the slack....
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 | Feb 10, 2016 |
Module 3: Politics and the Legal Landscape of Information in the United States Introduction In the early United States partisan newspaper presses and their owners were drivers of the political debate. As the two major American political parties established themselves,...
by LIS101 | Jan 19, 2016 |
Module 4: The Production of Information Introduction The complex information ecosystem–in which public and private sources battle for control of policy, in which marketers and publishers compete for the public’s attention, in which popular press magazines...
by LIS101 | Jan 18, 2016 |
Module 2: The Consumption of Information Introduction No doubt most people are familiar with the friend who, no matter how much evidence is presented, will find a way to argue against it. If the debate were a football field, it would have the curious feature of moving...