news: credible or click-bait?
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Credible or Click bait? NCSMI, June 21, 2017Stephanie Willen Brown
Director, Park Library @ UNC’s
School of Media & Journalism
Image from https://thenounproject.com/term/journalist/813630/
Writing Prompt• Do you think you could spot fake stories?
• Why or why not?
• Have you ever been factually fooled by a social
media post?
Image from: https://thenounproject.com/term/write/774211/
What Are We Talking About?
Hoax Propaganda
Disinformation / Disinformatzya / Dezinformatsia /Dezinformatsiya
Sponsored Content
Fake News *Lügenpresse *Truthful
Hyperbole *Manipulated
Content *
False Connection*
False Context *
SatireMistakes Corrections
* Not defined in any Oxford dictionaries, as of March 29, 2017
What is the Problem?• Fake news
• Alternative facts
• Opinion / editorials
• Evaluating information
• Sponsored content
• News literacy
• Information literacy
• Media literacy
• (Social) media literacy
What is the Solution?
Instruction
What is the Solution?
How to Teach This?• Politically neutral
• Active learning activity (or
several)
Images from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/learner-experiences-of-technology
Does this photo provide strong evidence about
the conditions near the Fukushima Daiichi
Power Plant? Explain your reasoning.
10 Questions for Fake News
Detection
Tweets on
March 22, 2015
Which is the best
source of
information about
the chief’s
resignation? Why?
SHEG Prompt:
This article argues
that many
millennials need
help with financial
planning.
What is one reason
you might NOT
trust this article?
Compare Two Stories
3-page Checklist
Resources• Brown, Stephanie W. “Checking Facts.” UNC School of
Media & Journalism, April 5, 2017.
http://guides.lib.unc.edu/mejo153/checkingFacts
• Further resources on overcoming fake news
• Lesson plans
• Recommended fact checking sites
• Sources for this presentation
• Articles & podcasts about News Literacy:
https://pinboard.in/u:CogSciLibrarian/t:NewsLiteracy/