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- Greg Malivuk
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- How can we tell if (online) information is reliable?
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources - Wikipedia’s guide for assessing the reliability of all kinds of sources
- http://tgeslibrary.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/0/7/17072660/reliable_website.pdf - a library’s guide for assessing the reliability of websites (you have this as a handout)
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- Example: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6313a4.htm
- - .gov = probably very reliable statistical information (the CDC in particular has very good health and medical statistics)
- - professional, well-organized (it’s not made by an individual crazy person, like timecube.com)
- - no advertising probably means the website doesn’t depend on specific companies for funding
- - includes lists of references and data
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- handout part 3 - check the rest of a website to see what kinds of articles it has (especially for political topics)
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- part 4 - how can you tell who the intended audience is?
- If it’s hard to tell from the content itself, look at the advertising. Who would buy the products being advertised?
- (Ctrl+Shift+N opens an “anonymous” window in Chrome, which won’t be logged into your Google account.)
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- bias = an opinion for or against some position, especially if the opinion is not based on facts
- examples: pro-Obama bias, anti-French bias
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