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Online Searching & News Evaluation
Objective
•Describe strategies for finding news articles in the public domain.•Explain the contextual nature of authority in our current information landscape.•Identify motivations of news media outlets.•Describe the role of both conscious and unconscious factors that impact the news we engage with.•Understand that searching and evaluating news is a strategic practice and requires a critical mindset.•Apply techniques to help evaluate news sources. •Apply techniques to help evaluate numerical and graphical information presented in the news.
Type
Presentation
Discipline
Any
Creator
Colleen MacKinnon
Date
2021
ACRL Frame
Research as Inquiry
License
CC-NC-SA