Event Title
Reading the Web in the Age of Misinformation
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Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
Event Website
https://www.belmont.edu/liberal-arts/symposium/index.html
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
28-9-2021 3:30 PM
End Date
9-2021 4:30 PM
Description
How do you read the web well in the age of misinformation? Today’s students
have been taught from a young age to read and evaluate websites, most often by
employing a checklist of criteria with which to judge a source’s credibility. Studies
show that most people read the web by looking for outside markers of quality to
evaluate quickly what they find. We’ve all become information skeptics, perhaps
necessarily so in our post-truth, socially-networked world, but some argue that
the way we’ve been taught to read the web has led to a kind of cynicism about
information, where everything is biased and suspect. In a rapidly changing information
ecosystem, where misinformation abounds and algorithms proliferate, reading and
evaluating the web requires a more nuanced approach. In this session, a Belmont
librarian will introduce some strategies to help you read and contextualize the web in
order to use information in your academic and personal life.
Recommended Citation
Mills, Jenny, "Reading the Web in the Age of Misinformation" (2021). Humanities Symposium. 9.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2021/2021/9
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Reading the Web in the Age of Misinformation
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
How do you read the web well in the age of misinformation? Today’s students
have been taught from a young age to read and evaluate websites, most often by
employing a checklist of criteria with which to judge a source’s credibility. Studies
show that most people read the web by looking for outside markers of quality to
evaluate quickly what they find. We’ve all become information skeptics, perhaps
necessarily so in our post-truth, socially-networked world, but some argue that
the way we’ve been taught to read the web has led to a kind of cynicism about
information, where everything is biased and suspect. In a rapidly changing information
ecosystem, where misinformation abounds and algorithms proliferate, reading and
evaluating the web requires a more nuanced approach. In this session, a Belmont
librarian will introduce some strategies to help you read and contextualize the web in
order to use information in your academic and personal life.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2021/2021/9
