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 5, 2017 | Webpages |
View story at Medium.com Hey Movement Fam, It is the folks from Equality Labs and we have an urgent Anti-Doxing guide to support the activists who are getting slammed by Alt-right Forces around the country for coming out and resisting Nazis from Charlottesville to...
by LIS101 | Aug 25, 2017 | Assignments, Research Skills |
This sample outline is meant to guide you through your own outline. Your outlines should show a progression of your paper topic while indicating which sources you intend to use and how you will use them to prove your point Your outline should also include a works...
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 | 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 | 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 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...
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...