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INFORMATION DETECTIVE: WHERE DID THAT INFORMATION COME FROM? KELLY BENNETT & BONNIE LAFAZAN BERKELEY COLLEGE LIBRARIES INFORMATION LITERACY MONTH 2014
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INFORMATION DETECTIVE:
WHERE DID THAT INFORMATION COME
FROM?
KELLY BENNETT & BONNIE LAFAZAN
BERKELEY COLLEGE LIBRARIES
INFORMATION LITERACY MONTH 2014
AGENDA:
• Do you trust your Facebook feed?
• Research in the Popular Media
• Content, Content, Content
• Seeing is Believing?
• Fun with Quotations
• Test Yourself!
http://socialtimes.com/watch-social-media-grow-with-the-real-time-social-web-clock_b11451
DO YOU TRUST
YOUR FACEBOOK
FEED?
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/
“A NEW STUDY HAS FOUND…”RESEARCH IN THE POPULAR MEDIA
“Dogs understand humans better than we thought”
INTERNET DETECTIVES:
GO FIND THE ORIGINAL STUDY!
THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOF SCIENTIFIC STUDY
Animal Cognition, May 2013, Volume 16, Issue 3, pp 385-394
CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT
•News Aggregators
e.g. The Huffington Post
•Blogs
•User-generated
e.g. CNN iReport; Reddit
•Sponsored Content
CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT
• Purpose to drive traffic (clicks) to their sites to increase revenue
• Headlines used to evoke emotion
CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT
SEEING IS BELIEVING?
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!’”
Psychology Today
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.”
FUN WITH QUOTATIONS!
Anatomy of a Fake Quotation
Quote Investigator
Be Critical!
Not all Content is Created Equal
Locate & Evaluate the Original
Source of the Information
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
For more links and information, see the Information Detective
LibGuide
http://berkeleycollege.libguides.com/informationdetective
