Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era
by Nicole A. Cooke
American Library Association, 2018
Paper: 978-0-8389-1636-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8389-1750-3 (ePub) | eISBN: 978-0-8389-1751-0 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification ZA3075.C68 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.42
TOC
Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Fake News is Old News
The Need to Be Multi-Literate
Understanding the Current State of the Media
Learning Theory
Misinformation/Disinformation
An Emotional Dimension of Information Behavior
Political Economy and the Illusion of Choice
The Rise of Iterative Journalism
Critical Thinking
Critical Media Consumption Through Multiple Literacy Instruction
Revisiting the Headlines
Moving Past Fake News
Lesson Plan
Examples from the Illinois Workshop
The Larger Context of Fake News—Suggested Books
Multiple Forms of Literacy—Suggested Articles and Websites
Resources for Information Consumers
References
About the Author
Index
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