Jason

July 23, 2019July 24, 2019

Final project: strategies of intervention

In our first unit, you got some experience practicing basic web literacies via fact-checking, researching sites like Snopes, Politifact, and Wikipedia; going upstream for original source material, and assessing credibility by reading sources laterally. Such strategies empower you as a user as you are better able to sort valid information from fake news.

July 19, 2019July 19, 2019

Technology & post-truth: algorithms

Front matter

Conferences on Monday for Response #2 drafts: schedule.
Response #2
End of Week 4: only 2 weeks left!

July 18, 2019July 18, 2019

Psychology & post-truth: Confirmation bias

Cognitive Miser Quiz

These are all questions that you have the information to answer. However, you will have a limited time to answer these. This is to illustrate how your brain works, not to test your knowledge. Do the best you can. Don’t answer “I don’t know.” Give it a guess.

July 16, 2019July 17, 2019

American culture & post-truth: Conspiracies

Front matter

Group conferences tomorrow: look at schedule
Response #1

July 15, 2019July 12, 2019

Economics of post-truth: Clickbait

Front matter

Last week we talked about the politics of post-truth and practiced using marginal annotations to pull out a passage and contextualize it. How would you summarize our conversation about Robert-Miller? What does demagoguery have to do with post-truth and/or fake news?
Week at a glance: schedule.
Open a new document and write down one thing that is lingering from the Daily podcast you listened to for today. This can be a striking detail, question, a response, an objection, a passionate agreement, anything that is sticking with you after the reading. Once you are finished paste it into this document.