Fake news, propaganda, and plain old lies
Subtitle: how to find trustworthy information in the digital age
By: Donald A. Barclay
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781538108895
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Online journalism; Fake news; History; Journalism; Information literacy
Description: "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"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Credible information: why it matters, what are its limitations; title: Fake news as phenomenon: (almost) nothing new under the sun; title: Tricks of the trade: techniques that lower your information guard; title: Logical fallacies: more tools of deception; title: Evaluating an information source: nine essential questions everyone should ask; title: Power in numbers: negotiating the statistics minefield; title: Scholarly information: identifying, evaluating, and understanding it; title: Help is where you find it: resources for evaluating information; title: Final thoughts.