Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
About This Book
1 Four Moves What people need most when confronted with a claim that may not be 100% true is things they can do to get closer to the truth. They need something I have decided to call “moves.” Moves accomplish intermediate goals in the fact-checking process. They are associated with specific tactics. Here are the four moves this guide will hinge on: - Check for previous work: Look around to see if someone else has already fact-checked the claim or provided a synthesis of research. - Go upstream t
| Category | general |
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| Subject | N/A |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 25 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 2 Building a Fact-Checking Habit by Checking Your Emotions
- 3 Why This Book?
- 7 Activity: Spot Sponsored Content
- 9 Using Google Reverse Image Search
- 10 Tracking the Source of Viral Photos
- 14 Identifying Sponsored Content
- 15 Activity: Trace Viral Photos Upstream
- 18 Activity: Evaluate a Site
- 19 Activity: Find Top Authorities for a Subject
- 21 What “Reading Laterally” Means
- 22 National Newspapers of Record
- 25 Finding High Quality Secondary Sources
- 26 How to Think about Research
- 27 Evaluating a Website or Publication’s Authority
- 28 Finding a Journal’s Impact Factor
- 30 Using Google Scholar to Check Author Expertise
- 32 Searching TV Transcripts with the Internet Archive
- 34 Using Google Books to Track Down Quotes
- 36 Citation Rates
- Primary Navigation
- 40 Treating Google’s “Snippets” with Suspicion
- 42 Finding Out When a Page Was Published Using Google
- 45 Verifying Twitter Identity
- 48 “How to Use Previous Work” Image Descriptions
- 49 Image Descriptions