Types of souces, fake news, info literacy challenges, disinformation, and news literacy
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What are types of sources?
Informal (talking with people), institutional (press release), scholarly (research), and journalistic (magazines/newspapers)
What are issues with fake news?
Spread of inaccurate news and causes manipulation
What are information literary challenges?
Overwhelming amount of info that floods us making it difficult to find reliable from fabricated info. New technologies create/share info making misinformation look authoritative, conflict between speed and accuracy, and the internet has made it easier to only select info that supports personal beliefs
In disinformation what are the 6 types of fake news?
Authentic material in wrong context
Imposter new sites designed ti look like known news organizations
Fake news sites
Fake information
Manipulated content
Parody content
What is news literacy?
How false news can spread and circular reporting?
Why do you need news literacy?
Teaches skills that we need to know the credibility of info and examine credible info plays in a democracy.
What are some tips from news literacy?
When reading info ask: Who produced it for what purpose? Is it intended to inform/persuade?
What are characteristics of credibility?
Context, quality sourcing, verification, word choice, documentation and fairness