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Digital Media Literacy


Introduction to College Research by Walter D. Butler, Aloha Sargent, and Kelsey Smith



CTRL - F

Navigating Misinformation/Disinformation

Metacognitive Readings 

Dunning, David. "We Are All Confident Idiots."  Pacific Standard, vol. 7, no. 6, Nov. 2014, pp. 56–64. 

Nichols, Tom. “How America Lost Faith in Expertise: And Why That’s a Giant Problem.” Foreign Affairs, vol. 96, no. 2, Mar. 2017, pp. 60–73. 

Chatfield, Tom. "Why We Believe Fake News." BBC FUTURE, 8 Sep. 2019. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190905-how-our-brains-get-overloaded-by-the-21st-century..

Algorithmic Bias

TED Talk - Cathy O'Neil "The Era of Blind Faith in Big Data Must End."  Transcript: Algorithms Are Everywhere O'Neill.docx

TED Talk - Joy Buolamwini "How I'm fighting Bias in Algorithms." Transcript: How I'm Fighting Bias in Algorithms.docx

TED Talk - Jennifer Golbeck "Your Social Media 'Likes' Expose More Than You Think." Transcript: Your Social Media Likes Golbeck.docx

TED Talk - Eli Pariser "Beware Online 'Filter Bubbles.'"  Transcript: Beware Online Filter Bubbles Pariser.docx