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 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 |
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 |
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 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 | 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 | 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...