Deciphering Fake News #infoworriesUNC
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My segment at UNC's "What Should We Be Worried About: information and Media in the Trump Era" workshop 03/31/17. #infoworriesUNC
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- 1. Deciphering Fake News What Should We Be Worried About? Stephanie Willen Brown Director, Park Library @ UNC’s School of Media & Journalism Image from https://thenounproject.com/term/journalist/813630/
- 2. What Are We Talking About? HoaxPropaganda Disinformation / Disinformatzya / Dezinformatsia dezinformatsiya Conspiracy Fake News * Lügenpresse * Truthful Hyperbole * Manipulated Content * False Connection* False Context * SatireMistakes * Not defined in any Oxford dictionaries, as of March 29, 2017
- 5. What is the Solution?
- 6. How to Teach This? • Politically neutral • Active learning activity (or several) Images from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/learner-experiences-of-technology
- 7. Does this photo provide strong evidence about the conditions near the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant? Explain your reasoning.
- 8. AllSides.com
- 9. Resources • Brown, Stephanie W. “Checking Facts.” UNC School of Media & Journalism, March 31, 2017. http://guides.lib.unc.edu/mejo153/checkingFacts • Further resources on overcoming fake news • Lesson plans • Recommended fact checking sites • Sources for this presentation
Editor's Notes
- Images from: https://openclipart.org/detail/242087/vintagemotherdaughter https://pixabay.com/en/daily-newspaper-newspaper-newsprint-671713/ Created by Piper Anderson & Michelle Magsino
- Are ‘Mutated’ Daisies Really Caused by Fukushima Radiation? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/150723-fukushima-mutated-daisies-flowers-radiation-science/ “plant scientists aren’t so sure. It’s possible the radiation could be involved, but there are a number of other explanations as well, they say. “Twitter user @san_kaido first shared the picture in late May, from Nasushiobara City. That’s about 108 miles (173 kilometers) southwest of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which was disabled by the March 2011 tsunami and leaked radiation into the environment.” … “It’s possible the flower deformity could have been induced by radiation, says Jeffrey J. Doyle, a professor of plant biology at Cornell University. However, “this is a pretty common mutation in daisies that I’ve seen sporadically in various places not associated with radioactivity,” he says. “There are many factors that can cause the oddity, Doyle says, from chemicals to diseases, a hormone imbalance, or random mutations to inherited genes. This particular malformation has been seen in numerous species of the world’s 20,000 members of the daisy family, from Holland to Idaho. “He's not ruling out a role for Fukushima: “It wouldn’t surprise me to find mutations of all types, including this one, in places that have higher than average levels of mutagenic agents, such as a radioactive site or toxic waste dump.”” … “Beth Krizek, a plant biologist at the University of South Carolina, agrees that radiation is a possible cause of the flower oddity, but says there are many other possible explanations. ““It’s not that rare,” Krizek says of the odd daisies. “You could occasionally see this just in plants growing in your garden.” “
- http://www.allsides.com
- Stop worrying about fake news. What comes next will be much worse | Jonathan Albright | Opinion | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/09/fake-news-technology-filters