Media Smart : Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and other Information Professionals.
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The most important thing today's students can learn is how to find and evaluate information. This book provides in-depth discussion of aspects of media literacy and how they can be used to manipulate information. Classroom exercises are provided to help instructors teach vital media literacy skills to their students.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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Burkhardt, J. M. (2022). Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and other Information Professionals . Facet Publishing.

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Burkhardt, Joanna M. 2022. Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and Other Information Professionals. London: Facet Publishing.

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Burkhardt, Joanna M. Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and Other Information Professionals London: Facet Publishing, 2022.

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Burkhardt, J. M. (2022). Media smart: lessons, tips and strategies for librarians, classroom instructors and other information professionals. London: Facet Publishing.

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Burkhardt, Joanna M. Media Smart: Lessons, Tips and Strategies for Librarians, Classroom Instructors and Other Information Professionals Facet Publishing, 2022.

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5050 |a Endorsements -- Title page -- Contents -- List of exercises -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 A Brief History of Media and Media Manipulation -- The origins of human communication -- Numbers and writing -- Oral transmission of news -- Information in print -- Electronic communication -- Advertising -- Spread of misinformation -- 2 The Psychology of Memory and Learning -- Storing and processing information -- Confirmation bias -- Transfer of learning -- Comprehension -- Making learning and memory work for us -- Corrections -- Cross-cultural difference -- Expertise -- Conclusion -- 3 The Internet, Technology and the Media -- The rise of the internet -- Technology -- Search engines -- Social media -- Trending -- The media -- EXERCISE 3.1: MAINSTREAM NEWS VERSUS ENTERTAINMENT NEWS -- EXERCISE 3.2: EVALUATION OF NEWS SOURCES -- EXERCISE 3.3: SOCIAL MEDIA AND PUBLIC OPINION -- EXERCISE 3.4: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE NEWS -- EXERCISE 3.5: FINDING DELETED TWEETS -- EXERCISE 3.6: EVALUATING IMAGE-ONLY TWEETS -- EXERCISE 3.7: PAGE TRANSPARENCY ON FACEBOOK -- EXERCISE 3.8: SOCIAL MEDIA SETTINGS AND SAFETY -- 4 Selecting Sources of Information -- Opening up the world of information -- Algorithms -- Social media -- Trust and reputation -- Data deficits -- Selecting sources -- Alphabet soup -- EXERCISE 4.1: EVALUATING WEBSITES STARTING WITH LATERAL READING -- EXERCISE 4.2: COMPARING NEWS STORIES FOR BIAS AND/OR SLANT -- EXERCISE 4.3: INTERNAL EVALUATION OF A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, BIAS AND AUTHORITY -- EXERCISE 4.4: COMPARING SEARCH ENGINES -- EXERCISE 4.5: SOURCE EVALUATION DISCUSSION -- EXERCISE 4.6: WHAT IS THE BEST ICE CREAM? -- EXERCISE 4.7: KEYWORD SEARCHING -- EXERCISE 4.8: BOOLEAN OPERATORS -- EXERCISE 4.9: EVALUATION OF SOURCES AND CREDIBILITY -- EXERCISE 4.10: SPOTTING FAKE DOCUMENTARIES.
5058 |a EXERCISE 4.11: CLUES TO IDENTIFYING RUMORS OR SPECULATION -- EXERCISE 4.12: EYE-WITNESS REPORTS VERSUS REPORTS THAT LACK EYE-WITNESS TESTIMONY -- EXERCISE 4.13: HOW TO IDENTIFY TRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION -- EXERCISE 4.14: BLUFF THE LISTENER -- EXERCISE 4.15: EVALUATING WEBSITES -- 5 Expertise, Authority and Credibility -- Experts -- Sharing information -- Evaluating information -- Authority -- How can authority be evaluated? -- Lateral reading -- Credibility -- EXERCISE 5.1: ARE YOU AN AUTHOR? -- EXERCISE 5.2: WHAT IS AN EXPERT? WHY IS EXPERTISE IMPORTANT? -- EXERCISE 5.3: EMPLOYER'S INFLUENCE ON INFORMATION -- EXERCISE 5.4: CREDIBILITY OF AN AUTHOR -- EXERCISE 5.5: EDITORIALS - FACT OR OPINION? -- EXERCISE 5.6: WHO CAN PUBLISH AND WHERE? -- EXERCISE 5.7: AUTHORITY MATTERS - WHAT KIND OF AUTHORITY? -- EXERCISE 5.8: MEDICAL MISINFORMATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA -- EXERCISE 5.9: PHOTO OBSERVATION CHALLENGE -- EXERCISE 5.10: DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION RECORDS -- EXERCISE 5.11: EVALUATING SCIENTIFIC NEWS - IS IT REAL OR FAKE? -- 6 Language in Media Messages -- Words matter -- Propaganda -- Satire -- Advertising -- Public trust in journalism -- EXERCISE 6.1: WHAT IS PROPAGANDA AND HOW IS IT USED? -- EXERCISE 6.2: IDENTIFY PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES IN POLITICAL SPEECH -- EXERCISE 6.3: PROPAGANDA IN ADVERTISING VERSUS PROPAGANDA IN POLITICS -- EXERCISE 6.4: WORDS MATTER - LANGUAGE CAN AFFECT THE EMOTIONS -- EXERCISE 6.5: REMIX THE HEADLINE -- EXERCISE 6.6: MEDIA MANIPULATION WITH EMOTION -- EXERCISE 6.7: PROPAGANDA TACTICS IN ADVERTISING -- EXERCISE 6.8: HOW TO TELL AN ADVERTISEMENT FROM A NEWS STORY -- EXERCISE 6.9: DISSECTING ADVERTISEMENTS -- EXERCISE 6.10: DISSECTING LOGOS -- EXERCISE 6.11: DISSECTING SLOGANS -- EXERCISE 6.12: NEWS VERSUS OPINION -- EXERCISE 6.13: WORD SELECTION FOR NEWS COVERAGE -- EXERCISE 6.14: IDENTIFYING INFLUENCERS.
5058 |a 7 Algorithms, Bots, Trolls, Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligence -- Algorithms -- Bots, trolls, cyborgs and other inauthentic activity -- EXERCISE 7.1: ALGORITHM AWARENESS -- EXERCISE 7.2: HOW DO ALGORITHMS HELP YOU SEARCH THE INTERNET? -- EXERCISE 7.3: FACEBOOK PRIVACY BASICS -- EXERCISE 7.4: FACEBOOK ADS MANAGER -- EXERCISE 7.5: HOW TO IDENTIFY A BOT -- EXERCISE 7.6: HOW TO IDENTIFY AND AVOID BAD BOTS -- EXERCISE 7.7: HOW TO AVOID BAD APPS -- EXERCISE 7.8: CAN YOU SPOT THE TROLL? -- EXERCISE 7.9: HOW TO VERIFY TWEETS -- EXERCISE 7.10: GETTING INFORMATION FROM TWITTER ACCOUNTS -- EXERCISE 7.11: FAKE NEWS GENERATOR -- 8 Statistics and Data Visualization -- Statistics -- The Wayback Machine -- Data visualization -- EXERCISE 8.1: HISTORICAL DATA WITH THE WAYBACK MACHINE -- EXERCISE 8.2: STATISTICS ABOUT TV CONSUMPTION -- EXERCISE 8.3: WHO COLLECTED THE DATA AND HOW? -- EXERCISE 8.4: FOLLOW A STATISTIC FROM A POPULAR MAGAZINE ARTICLE TO ITS SOURCE -- EXERCISE 8.5: DATA VISUALIZATION WITH CHARTS AND GRAPHS -- EXERCISE 8.6: CREATE A DATA VISUALIZATION -- EXERCISE 8.7: USING MAPS IN DATA VISUALIZATION -- EXERCISE 8.8: CREATE YOUR OWN DATA VISUALIZATION WITH A MAP -- EXERCISE 8.9: TELLING FACT FROM OPINION -- EXERCISE 8.10: ANALYZE POLITICAL SPEECHES -- EXERCISE 8.11: FACT OR OPINION - FOX NEWS -- 9 Images, Reverse Image Searching and Deepfakes -- Processing visuals -- Images -- Reverse image searching -- Memes -- Deepfakes -- Cheapfakes, shallowfakes and dumbfakes -- EXERCISE 9.1: VIDEO BASICS -- EXERCISE 9.2: VISUAL VERIFICATION GUIDES FROM FIRST DRAFT -- EXERCISE 9.3: VERIFYING AND QUESTIONING IMAGES -- EXERCISE 9.4: REVERSE IMAGE SEARCHING WITH GOOGLE -- EXERCISE 9.5: REVERSE IMAGE SEARCHING WITH TINEYE -- EXERCISE 9.6: UNDERSTANDING IMAGES -- EXERCISE 9.7: MATCHING CAPTIONS AND PHOTOS -- EXERCISE 9.8: WHICH FACE IS REAL?.
5058 |a EXERCISE 9.9: EVALUATION OF IMAGES -- EXERCISE 9.10: COMPARING IMAGES -- EXERCISE 9.11: USING GEOLOCATION TO HELP VERIFY AN IMAGE -- EXERCISE 9.12: CHECK THE MEME -- EXERCISE 9.13: INTERROGATING AN IMAGE -- EXERCISE 9.14: PHOTO MANIPULATION AND HISTORY -- 10 Media Manipulation and Fact Checking -- Evaluating information and the source of the information -- Fact checking - the background -- Why is there a need to fact check? -- Twitter checks and cautions -- Lateral reading -- EXERCISE 10.1: WHERE DOES YOUR NEWS COME FROM? - PART 1 -- EXERCISE10.2: WHERE DOES YOUR NEWS COME FROM? - PART 2 -- EXERCISE 10.3: WHO IS BEHIND THIS INFORMATION? - LATERAL READING -- EXERCISE 10.4: WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE? -- EXERCISE 10.5: FACT CHECKING IN JOURNALISM -- EXERCISE 10.6: FACT CHECK LIGHTNING ROUND -- EXERCISE 10.7: WHAT INFORMATION FROM ACCOUNT PROFILES DOES TWITTER PROVIDE TO THE PUBLIC? - PART 1 -- EXERCISE 10.8: WHAT INFORMATION FROM ACCOUNT PROFILES DOES TWITTER PROVIDE TO THE PUBLIC? - PART 2 -- EXERCISE 10.9: ADVANCED TWITTER - PART 1 -- EXERCISE 10.10: ADVANCED TWITTER - PART 2 -- EXERCISE 10.11: MAKING AND FINDING FAKE TWEETS -- EXERCISE 10.12: FINDING DELETED TWEETS -- EXERCISE 10.13: HOW TO INGEST A RESEARCH REPORT -- EXERCISE 10.14: FACTS VERSUS OPINION -- 11 The Ethics of Likes, Clicks, Shares and Data Harvesting -- Ethics -- Ethics of data harvesting -- Ethics of tracking -- Ethics in the media -- Ethics of framing -- EXERCISE 11.1: CORRECTIONS IN THE NEWS -- EXERCISE 11.2: CORRECTING MIS/DISINFORMATION FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS -- EXERCISE 11.3: CHANGING BEHAVIOR WITH MEDIA LITERACY -- EXERCISE 11.4: CREDIBILITY IN NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGE MEDIA -- EXERCISE 11.5: HOW ARE DIFFERENT CULTURAL GROUPS DEPICTED IN THE MEDIA? -- EXERCISE 11.6: MEDICAL DISINFORMATION -- EXERCISE 11.7: STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA -- EXERCISE 11.8: BURST YOUR INFORMATION BUBBLE.
5058 |a EXERCISE 11.9: HOW TO IDENTIFY A RUMOR -- EXERCISE 11.10: VISUAL COMPONENTS IN DOCUMENTS -- EXERCISE 11.11: PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY ONLINE -- 12 How We Can Help Ourselves -- Fighting mis- and disinformation with technology -- Fighting mis- and disinformation with corrections -- Fighting mis- and disinformation with legislation -- Fighting mis- and disinformation with psychology and education -- Fighting mis- and disinformation in the classroom using games -- Fighting mis- and disinformation with codes of ethics -- Fighting mis- and disinformation by fighting plagiarism -- Fighting mis- and disinformation with diversity -- How can we help ourselves? -- Conclusions -- Resources.
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650 0|a Information literacy-Study and teaching (Higher).
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