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1) Fake news, propaganda, and plain old lies: how to find trustworthy information in the digital age
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This title explores journalistic and fact-checking standards, Constitutional protections, and real-world case studies, helping readers identify the mechanics, perpetrators, motives, and psychology of fake news. A final chapter explores methods for assessing and avoiding the spread of fake news.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Once on the fringe, fake news has become mainstream. From bogus social media accounts to Russian troll factories, phony news muddies the social and political discourse, and is a threat to our democracy. This high-interest book defines fake news and reveals the people behind the spread of disinformation. This text directly correlates with state journalism standards about developing media literacy. Readers will also glimpse the future of fake news...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devices - fast, abundant, and mostly free - that era is ending. Our best journalists, MItchell Stephens argues, instead must offer original, challenging perspectives - not just slightly more thorough accounts of widely reported events. His book proposes a new standard: "wisdom...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of "fake news." Bartlett helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. He presents actionable tips and tricks for reading critically, judging sources, using fact-checking sites, avoiding confirmation bias, identifying trustworthy experts, and more.
6) Journalism
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This volume of opposing viewpoints discusses the changing face of journalism. The Internet has revolutionized the way we view media, and this text explores the ethical issues facing journalism today, how journalism should be practiced and journalists be protected, and the future of journalism in a rapidly evolving global Internet age.
For over 25 years, the Greenhaven Press Opposing Viewpoints Series has developed and set the standard for current-issue...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Like the authors' classic book The Elements of Journalism, Blur is a unique and readable discourse on how the information culture is changing. Just as important, it provides a road map for all citizens to navigate that culture by revealing the tradecraft great journalists have used to sift rumor from fact and access the truth. In an age when the line between citizen and journalist is becoming increasingly blurred, Blur is an indispensable guide.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Learn how to tell the difference between credible and non-credible sources and achieve information literacy with this essential nonfiction text! Featuring TIME© content, this book explores contemporary issues and builds students' critical literacy skills.
Author
Publisher
The Resistance Manifesto
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author, a media analyst, presents his analysis and perspective on the evolution of today's news platforms, from the expansion into social media as well as his thoughts on the underlying methods and motivations of today's news and information sources and distributors.
Series
Publisher
New York Times Educational Publishing in association with the Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
""Fake news!" has become such a common refrain on TV and Twitter, as well as the topic of major criminal investigations, but many still have a hard time distinguishing between fake news and legitimate reporting. Furthermore, many fail to grasp the extent of the role that data research centers and foreign governments in the propagation of inaccurate, sensational stories. In this book, readers will learn about fake news: how it gets made, how it affects...
11) Fake news
Author
Series
Publisher
QED Publishing, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What is fake news? How can the news be wrong? How do we know if what we're reading is true or not? The concept of fake news and the media as a whole is discussed as part of the What's the Issue series. What's the Issue asks 'what's all the fuss about?' It reviews what is at stake when we think about fake news, with the aim of helping young people to understand this difficult subject and provide them with the tools to inform their own opinions on the...
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