Guides: Fake News: Promoting Online Civic Reasoning and Media Literacy: Research

Tom Nichols: The Death of Expertise

PBS Newshour. (2017, April 14). The problem with thinking you know more than the experts [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/problem-thinking-know-experts/

Additional Resources

ALA Public Programs Office. (2017, February 23). Fake news: A library resource round-up. Retrieved from http://www.programminglibrarian.org/articles/fake-news-library-round
The American Library Association Public Programs Office's compilation of resources for teaching and learning about fake news includes webinars, checklists, tips, news, books and articles.
Moraine Valley Community College Library. (2019, April 10). News, media, & disinformation: Making sense in today’s information landscape [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/4fs4MUGkKmM
"2019 Information Literacy Summit Keynote Address Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, Associate Professor and the MSLIS Program Director at the School of Information Sciences, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

We are now living in an age of “fake news,” which is but one manifestation of misinformation and disinformation (mis/dis) and human information behavior.
Fake news is not a new phenomenon, but this latest iteration has highlighted the affective, or emotional, dimensions of how people interact with information – information consumption is so much more than people’s cognitive processing.

This talk will address the renewed phenomenon of fake news, mis/dis, and its related concepts but then focus more explicitly on the affective information behaviors that influence our interactions with information and help us intellectually thrive in a post-truth society."
Programming Librarian. (2017). Post-truth: Fake news and a new era of information literacy [Video webinar]. Retrieved from http://www.programminglibrarian.org/learn/post-truth-fake-news-and-new-era-information-literacy
Webinar presented by Nicole Cooke, assistant professor at the School of School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of information Sciences. (2017). Fake News Workshop [Video recording of workshop]. Retrieved from https://ischool.illinois.edu/events/2017/02/01/fake-news-workshop
Presentations by information literacy experts defining fake news and discussing how it relates to literacy and information behavior. Includes hands-on exercises for assessing fake news and slides, audio and handouts.

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Source: Buzzsumo via Buzzfeed. (2016). [Graph illustration of Facebook engagement for top 5 and top 20 election stories]. Fake news is a real problem. Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/chart/6795/fake-news-is-a-real-problem/.