InfoGuides: Fake News Faculty Guide: Resources

Articles discussed in the library's Media Literacy PD sessions:

Results from a SHEG project that field-tested students' ability to judge the credibility of information.

This paper discusses three findings of critical media literacy study:

Fake News: How a Partying Mecedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies
Much of the political fake news during 2016 Presidential election came from Macedonian high schoolers.
Adults' Media Use and Attitudes
(extensive report, read executive summary)
Information Literacy: It's Become a Priority in an Era of Fake News
from the Chronicle of Higher Education [on-campus access only]
Beyond Fake News
While most of our students will abandon academic research the day they turn in their last college research paper, they will continue to be bombarded by miracle cures, truthiness, hoaxes, conspiracy theorists, bad sourcing, and unverified lies. And that’s just on Facebook.
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study
The New York Times deconstructs how one man's declaration on Twitter the night after the 2016 presidential election turned into a fake-news phenomenon.
The News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit that works with educators and journalists to teach middle school and high school students how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age.