Donald A. Barclay

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies

How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781538108895
• ISBN-10: 1538108895
• Artikelnr.: 50016576

Autorenporträt

By Donald A. Barclay

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Credible Information: Why It Matters, What Are Its Limitations
Chapter 2: Fake News as Phenomenon: (Almost) Nothing New Under the Sun
Chapter 3: Tricks of the Trade: Techniques that Lower Your Information
GuardChapter 4:Logical Fallacies: More Tools of Deception
Chapter 5: Evaluating an Information Source: Nine Essential Questions
Everyone Should Ask
Chapter 6: Power in Numbers: Negotiating the Statistics Minefield
Chapter 7: Scholarly Information: Identifying, Evaluating, and
Understanding It
Chapter 8: Help Is Where You Find It: Resources for Evaluating Information
Final Thoughts