Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies (eBook)

How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

Donald A. Barclay (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
244 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-0890-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles? Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most trustworthy information in order to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives.*; Learn how to identify the alarm bells that signal untrustworthy information.*; Understand how to tell when statistics can be trusted and when they are being used to deceive.*; Inoculate yourself against the logical fallacies that can mislead even the brightest among us. Donald A. Barclay, a career librarian who has spent decades teaching university students to become information literate scholars and citizens, takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the complex and nuanced topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 46 Illustrations including: - 6 Black & White Illustrations; - 16 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 4 Tables; - 20 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: biased journalism • conservative media • conservative media bias • donald trump book • fake news book • fake news on social media • find reliable information • General Interest • how to • how to spot a liar • Journalism • learn to • mainstream media • nonbiased journalism • Online journalism • Online News • partisan journalism • print journalism • search online • yellow journalism
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-0890-9 / 1538108909
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-0890-1 / 9781538108901