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  • Introduction
  • Module 1: A Very Brief History of Information
  • Module 2: The Consumption of Information
  • Module 3: Politics and the Legal Landscape of Information
  • Module 4: The Production of Information
  • Module 5: Information Online
  • Module 6: Organizing Information
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Facebook, Exploited By Influence Campaigns, Tries To Clamp Down With ‘War Room’

by LIS101 | Oct 23, 2018 | Readings | 0 comments

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...

Evading the censors: Critical journalism in authoritarian states

by LIS101 | Sep 21, 2018 | Readings | 0 comments

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...

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