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Information Detective: Where Did That Information Come From?
- 1. INFORMATION DETECTIVE: WHERE DID THAT INFORMATION COME FROM? KELLY BENNETT & BONNIE LAFAZAN BERKELEY COLLEGE LIBRARIES INFORMATION LITERACY MONTH 2014
- 2. AGENDA: • Do you trust your Facebook feed? • Research in the Popular Media • Content, Content, Content • Seeing is Believing? • Fun with Quotations • Test Yourself!
- 5. DO YOU TRUST YOUR FACEBOOK FEED?
- 7. FYI, A SHORT LIST OF SATIRICAL WEBSITES: The Onion • The Daily Currant • The Daily Squib • Duffel Blog • Empire News • The Poke • ClickHole • National Report • The News Nerd http://realorsatire.com/ The 25 Funniest Times People Thought The Onion Was Real http://literallyunbelievable.org/
- 9. “A NEW STUDY HAS FOUND…” RESEARCH IN THE POPULAR MEDIA “Dogs understand humans better than we thought”
- 10. INTERNET DETECTIVES: GO FIND THE ORIGINAL STUDY!
- 12. THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY Animal Cognition, May 2013, Volume 16, Issue 3, pp 385-394
- 13. CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT •News Aggregators e.g. The Huffington Post •Blogs •User-generated e.g. CNN iReport; Reddit •Sponsored Content
- 14. CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT • Purpose to drive traffic (clicks) to their sites to increase • Headlines used to evoke emotion
- 17. FUN WITH QUOTATIONS! Who said, “Let them eat cake.” A. Marie Antoinette B. Buddy Valastro, the Cake Boss C. Nobody There’s no evidence that Marie Antoinette ever said this. The closest we can come is Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s autobiography, Confessions, written in 1770 (years before Marie Antoinette arrived at Versailles from her native Austria). In Confessions, he made a reference to a thoughtless princess who, “on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, ‘Then let them eat pastry!’”
- 18. FUN WITH QUOTATIONS! What movie contains this quote: “Luke, I am your father.” A. Star Wars: A New Hope B. The Empire Strikes Back C. Neither of these “No. I am your father.”
- 19. FUN WITH QUOTATIONS! Anatomy of a Fake Quotation
- 22. Be Critical! Not all Content is Created Equal Locate & Evaluate the Original Source of the Information
- 23. GOING VIRAL: INFORMATION GONE CRAZY! tinyurl.com/viralinformation Test your ability to separate internet hoaxes from real news stories with this presentation from the Berkeley College Online Library
- 24. For more links and information, see the Information Detective LibGuide http://berkeleycollege.libguides.com/informationdetective
Editor's Notes
- Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/cokerecall.asp Empire News: http://empirenews.net/coca-cola-recalls-2-million-bottles-with-the-name-michael-the-reason-why-will-shock-you/
- Popular news sites love new research studies. But how was this study done? What journal was it published in (quality?)? What are the actual conclusions of the authors? Information detectives want to now! TRY TO FIND THE ORIGINAL STUDY –Always use the ORIGINAL study in an academic paper Show video Ask students to write down clues to finding this study Journal name (Animal Cognition), date of video, BBC article BBC article has author name Journal Finder—ProQuest Browse issue or search name
- Link to Library Page Databases—Science—Facts on File Science Online search: fingers prune some info from UPI, Inc. article: Newcastle University Tom Smulders I want this study! Academic Search Premier – Advanced search: Newcastle University, Smulders, fingers prune Check for scholarly…nope! BUT some more info from New Scientist article: Journal! Confirm that Smulders is an author Library website journal search – no results Journal website as last resort – Full text PDF available for free!
- Popular news sites love new research studies. But how was this study done? What journal was it published in (quality?)? What are the actual conclusions of the authors? Information detectives want to now! TRY TO FIND THE ORIGINAL STUDY –Always use the ORIGINAL study in an academic paper Show video Ask students to write down clues to finding this study Journal name (Animal Cognition), date of video, BBC article BBC article has author name Journal Finder—ProQuest Browse issue or search name
- Not all content is created equal What is the SOURCE of the information? (Add blog example, msn.com, and website with stories from “partners”)
- Church sign maker sight Google image search