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"Fake News" and Misinformation: Resources & Further Reading

As a researcher and personal consumer of news, it is your responsibility to think critically about and evaluate the news sources you wish to cite. ​This guide will help you understand the parts and types of news articles, what to look for in news articles

Resources

ALA Public Programs Office. (2017, Feb. 23). Fake news: A library resource round-up. programminglibrarian.org/articles/fake-news-library-round

AU Game Lab & JoLT. (2020). Factitious2020!: Pandemic edition. http://factitious-pandemic.augamestudio.com/#/

Caulfield, M. (2018, Jan. 23). It can take as little as thirty seconds, seriously. Hapgood. hapgood.us/2018/01/23/it-can-take-as-little-as-thirty-seconds-seriously/

Cornell University Library. (2021). A guide to news research: Where to find news articles. https://guides.library.cornell.edu/newsresearch/todaysnews

Domonoske, C. (2016, Nov. 23). Students have 'dismaying' inability to tell fake news from real, study finds. NPR. 

www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/23/503129818/study-finds-students-have-dismaying-inability-to-tell- fake-news-from-real

Enoch Pratt Free Library. (2017). Fake news: How to spot it. Pratt Chat. blog.prattlibrary.org/2017/02/09/fake-news-how-to- spot-it/

FAIR. (2012). How to detect bias in news media. https://fair.org/take-action-now/media-activism-kit/how-to-detect-bias-in- news-media/

Miami Dade College. (2020). Understanding & identifying fake news: What, why, and how. https://libraryguides.mdc.edu/FakeNewsResource

Pasquantonio, V. (2016, Dec. 13). Lesson plan: How to teach your students about fake news. PBS. 

www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons-plans/lesson-plan-how-to-teach-your-students-about-fake-news/

PBS. (2018). Why do our brains love fake news? www.pbs.org/video/why-do-our-brains-love-fake-news-svp949/

Rose-Wiles, L. M. (2018). Reflections on fake news, librarians, and undergraduate research. Reference & User Services Quarterly 57(3), 200-204. 

https://scholarship.shu.edu/praxis-publications/3/

Stony Brook Center for News Literacy. (2021). Digital Resource Center: Center for news literacy. https://digitalresource.center/splashpage

Wineburg, S., McGrew, S., Breakstone, J. & Ortega, T. (2016). Evaluating information: The cornerstone of civic online reasoning.

Stanford Digital Repository. purl.stanford.edu/fv751yt5934