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Verified : how to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online / Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 266 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226829838
  • 0226829839
  • 9780226822068
  • 0226822060
Subject(s):
Contents:
Get quick context: it can take as little as thirty seconds -- seriously! -- Cheap signals: Or, how not to get duped -- Google: the bestie you thought you knew -- Lateral reading: using the Web to read the Web -- Reading the room: benefiting from expertise when you have only a bit yourself -- Show me the evidence: why scholarly sources are better than promotional materials, newsletters, and random tweets -- Wikipedia: not what your middle school teacher told you -- Video games: the dirty tricks of deceptive video -- Stealth advertising: when ads masquerade as news -- Once more with feeling: using your emotions to find the truth -- Conclusion: Critical ignoring -- Postscript: Large language models, ChatGPT, and the future of verification.
Summary: "These days, the world wide web has become the Wild West. We are faced with a seemingly endless source of information, all of it difficult to evaluate. Trusted sources can be full of ads, bad actors can slip under the radar, and seemingly questionable databases might hold a helpful treasure trove. Historian Sam Wineburg and media literacy guru Mike Caulfield are here to help with this informative, approachable guide to navigating the internet. With this illustrated tool kit, readers will learn to identify red flags, get quick context, and make better use of common tools like Google and Wikipedia that have the ability to help and hinder in equal measure"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet--often in less than 30 seconds.



The internet brings information to our fingertips almost instantly. The result is that we often jump to thinking too fast, without taking a few moments to verify the source before engaging with a claim or viral piece of media. Information literacy expert Mike Caulfield and educational researcher Sam Wineburg are here to enable us to take a moment for due diligence with this informative, approachable guide to the internet. With this illustrated tool kit, you will learn to identify red flags, get quick context, and make better use of common websites like Google and Wikipedia that can help and hinder in equal measure.



This how-to guide will teach you how to use the web to verify the web, quickly and efficiently, including how to

* Verify news stories and other events in as little as thirty seconds ( seriously )

* Determine if the article you're citing is by a reputable scholar or a quack

* Detect the slippery tactics scammers use to make their sites look credible

* Decide in a minute if that shocking video is truly shocking

* Deduce who's behind a site--even when its ownership is cleverly disguised

* Uncover if that feature story is actually a piece planted by a foreign government

* Use Wikipedia wisely to gain a foothold on new topics and leads for digging deeper



And so much more. Building on techniques like SIFT and lateral reading, Verified will help students and anyone else looking to get a handle on the internet's endless flood of information through quick, practical, and accessible steps.



For more information, visit the website for the book .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Get quick context: it can take as little as thirty seconds -- seriously! -- Cheap signals: Or, how not to get duped -- Google: the bestie you thought you knew -- Lateral reading: using the Web to read the Web -- Reading the room: benefiting from expertise when you have only a bit yourself -- Show me the evidence: why scholarly sources are better than promotional materials, newsletters, and random tweets -- Wikipedia: not what your middle school teacher told you -- Video games: the dirty tricks of deceptive video -- Stealth advertising: when ads masquerade as news -- Once more with feeling: using your emotions to find the truth -- Conclusion: Critical ignoring -- Postscript: Large language models, ChatGPT, and the future of verification.

"These days, the world wide web has become the Wild West. We are faced with a seemingly endless source of information, all of it difficult to evaluate. Trusted sources can be full of ads, bad actors can slip under the radar, and seemingly questionable databases might hold a helpful treasure trove. Historian Sam Wineburg and media literacy guru Mike Caulfield are here to help with this informative, approachable guide to navigating the internet. With this illustrated tool kit, readers will learn to identify red flags, get quick context, and make better use of common tools like Google and Wikipedia that have the ability to help and hinder in equal measure"-- Provided by publisher.

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