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A field guide to "fake news" and other information disorders

This guide helps users investigate misleading and viral content, memes, and trolling practices online. Packed with data visualizations, this free manual highlights a series of research protocols, or “recipes,” which can be used to trace trolling practices—the ways false viral news and memes circulate online and the commercial underpinnings of problematic content....

Keywords:: ICT literacy, media literacy, journalism, fake news, news literacy

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Academic Support Services / ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Literacy / Lesson Plans and Curriculum Guides

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Material Type:: Workshop and Training Material
Date Added to MERLOT:: April 16, 2018
Date Modified in MERLOT:: January 12, 2021
Author:: Liliana Bounegru
Jonathan Gray
Tommasso Venturini
Michele Mauri
Submitter:: Lesley Farmer
Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
Technical Format:: PDF, Website

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International