Web Literacy for College Students 2nd Ed
About This Book
1 Why This Book? When Tim Berners-Lee invented the web over thirty years ago, he envisioned an “open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries” [1]. In many ways, his vision has been realized; however, in the last few years he is concerned by three trends that are preventing the web from reaching its true potential. One of the trends that Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Foundation, 2017) notes i
| Category | technology |
|---|---|
| Subject | , Information theory, Research and information: general |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 24 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 Why This Book?
- 3 When Emotional Content Goes Viral
- 8 Identifying Sponsored Content
- 9 Activity: Spot Sponsored Content
- 10 Understanding Syndication
- 11 Tracking the Source of Viral Content
- 12 Tracking the Source of Viral Photos
- 13 Using Google Reverse Image Search
- 15 Activity: Trace Viral Photos
- 21 Finding a Journal’s Impact Factor
- 22 Using Google Scholar to Check Author Expertise
- 24 Finding High Quality Secondary Sources
- 26 Evaluating News Sources
- 27 What Makes a Trustworthy News Source?
- 28 National Newspapers of Record
- 31 Verifying Twitter Identity
- 33 Using the Wayback Machine to Check for Page Changes
- 35 Citation Rates
- 36 Using Google Books to Track Down Quotes
- 38 Searching TV Transcripts with the Internet Archive
- 39 Treating Google’s “Snippets” with Suspicion
- 41 Finding Out Who Owns a Domain
- 43 Promoted Tweets
- 44 Finding Old Newspaper Articles