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 | Oct 2, 2018 | papers, Readings |
Hal P. Kirkwood Jr Purdue University – Main Campus, kirkwood@purdue.edu Abstract This article analyses and discusses concepts of business information, with a view to developing a unified theory of business information to help underpin professional information...
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 | 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 | Sep 21, 2018 | Advocacy, Readings |
Author: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) The “digital divide” – a term that refers to the gaps in access to information and communication technology (ICT) – threatens the ICT “have-nots”, whether...
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 | 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 | 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 | Aug 24, 2018 | Research Skills |
Student use these worksheets to write research questions, find keywords, and construct search strategies using Boolean operators. Each worksheet prompts the student with a different research topic and asks them to create a search strategy to find as many relevant...
by LIS101 | Aug 22, 2018 | Assignments, Research Skills |
Please review the sources linked below and compose both an MLA and an APA citation for each. You can review MLA and APA citation styles using the library’s research guides. 1. A website: The EPA Eliminates a Strong Safeguard Against Industrial Air Pollution MLA:...
by LIS101 | Aug 21, 2018 | Research Skills |
Find It Before you can use a book, you need to be able to find it in your library’s Online Book Catalog. Books tend to be broader and more general than articles, so when searching for books, think in terms of subjects rather than specific keywords. For instance, a...
by LIS101 | Jul 19, 2018 | Interviews, Readings |
Today LIS101 interviews University of Nebraska English professor and gun control advocate Amanda Gailey. This interview sheds some light on the different factors that impact the quality of the information that informs this public debate, including culture, free...
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 | May 10, 2018 | Articles |
By Malini Goyal Updated: May 07, 2018, 04.34 PM IST At one level, what India Bound does is routine. At another, it seems a bit Orwellian. India Bound is a niche consulting firm that manages security risks — ranging from compliance to governance to crisis — for its...
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...