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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | Mar 7, 2017 | Articles, Readings, Uncategorized |
By Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOOK the foundations of American politics. Media reports immediately looked for external disruption to explain the unanticipated victory—with theories ranging from...
by LIS101 | Nov 17, 2016 | Articles, Uncategorized |
MAY 9, 2011 BY KENNETH OLMSTEAD, AMY MITCHELL AND TOM ROSENSTIEL Where People Go, How They Get There and What Lures Them Away Overall, the findings suggest that there is not one group of news consumers online but several, each of which behaves differently. These...
by LIS101 | Nov 5, 2016 | Articles |
Fact-checkers and students approach websites differently By Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew November 1, 2016 Did Donald Trump support the Iraq War? Hillary Clinton says yes. He says no. Who’s right? In search of answers, many of us ask our kids to...
by LIS101 | May 29, 2016 | Articles |
Todd J. Wiebe writes: “Now he would prowl the stacks of the library at night, pulling books out of a thousand shelves and reading in them like a madman. The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know—the...
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 21, 2016 | Articles |
Research by Shauna Theel, Max Greenberg, and Denise Robbins: A study of coverage of the recent United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt...
by LIS101 | May 13, 2016 | Articles |
What happens when public officials don’t tell the truth? Traditionally it’s been the role of the media to point this out. It is the role of the media not only to uncover hidden deceit, but also to point out deceit in plain sight. The media should not and cannot hide...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
Just as spring arrived last month in Iran, Meysam Rahimi sat down at his university computer and immediately ran into a problem: how to get the scientific papers he needed. He had to write up a research proposal for his engineering Ph.D. at Amirkabir University of...
by LIS101 | May 12, 2016 | Articles |
A two-year anthropological study of student research habits shows that students are in dire need of help from librarians, but are loath to ask for it. Read more at Inside Higher Ed
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 | Articles |
A few years ago, Eli Pariser gave a talk about how algorithms and social media shape what we know. I focused on the dangers of the “filter bubble” — the personalized universe of information that makes it into our feed — and argued that news-filtering algorithms narrow...
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...