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

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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Material Type:
Workshop and Training Material
Date Added to MERLOT:
April 16, 2018
Date Modified in MERLOT:
October 30, 2018
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Submitter:
Lesley Farmer
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High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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English
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This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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