With my work at the Sinclair library still completely remote and the campus still shuttered, I’ve been working on more videos to share with faculty and students.
I just published one that builds on my first video on the theme of avoiding fake news. In this new video, I dig a little deeper into how to investigate a source to figure out what it is and whether or not you should trust it.
I think this is a crucial topic for a couple of reasons.
First, our general shift from consuming information in print formats to online ones has quite a few impacts, but it can quite challenging to even identify what a given source is online without the format and trust indicators of their print counterpart.
Basically, everything can look that same online, which makes it difficult for the everyday information consumer to differentiate a trustworthy source from a random blog or worse, an intentionally misleading one.
And I also believe we need to shift our thinking of how to determine the credibility of those sources. Here’s the video:
If you’re interested in these topics, please do go ahead and subscribe to my channel as I’ll continue to upload new videos as soon as I can record them.
And with the stay at home orders likely to stick with us for month, not days or weeks, I should have plenty of time still working in a virtual-only environment.
And if you have any suggestions for a research-related topic for me to cover, don’t hesitate to let me know!
I also wrote up my experience teaching misinformation and fake news in another article.
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