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Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center 4094
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 nformation, 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 nformation, 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.
