This report from Project Information Literacy, presents findings about how college students conceptualize online information and navigate platforms that filter content and collect personal data. Offered here is a snapshot of how student conduct class research and everyday life information seeking and …Continue Reading
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Featured E-book: The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O”Connor, outline in their new book that social dynamics of “alternative facts” influences what people believe and that depend on who they know. Authors explore why demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them.
How Students Engage with News: Five Takeaways for Educators, Journalists and Librarians
Project Information Literacy produced a research report about how students access and consume current news stories and events. The report identifies the many pathways for students to obtain news information, the influence of social media, the role of news and media in student lives, why students share news items, and more
How Not to Spread Fake News
This op-ed from the New York Times by Michael J. Socolow, “How to Prevent Smart People from Spreading Dumb Ideas,” points out that “Too many Americans have no idea how to properly read a social media feed…regardless of educational attainment, economic class, …Continue Reading