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.
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.
Donald A. Barclay has been a professional academic librarian since 1990, having formerly held positions at New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, and the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library. He is currently the Deputy University Librarian at the University of California, Merced, where he has been employed since 2002. As a librarian, he has decades of experience in teaching students how to become more information literate. Besides working as a librarian, he was employed for four years as a special lecturer in composition and literature at Boise State University and also worked for ten years as a seasonal wildland fire fighter for the United States Forest Service.
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
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
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