Prep
We ended our opening day of class with an important question: Whose opinions and facts can we trust, or at least not dismiss out of hand as hopelessly biased? For this reason, I’ve bumped an important reading, originally scheduled a few classes down the line, to the top of the queue.
- Michael A. Caulfield, Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (2017), Part I (‘Four Strategies and a Habit’); Part II (‘Look for Previous Work’), Sections 1 (‘How to Use Previous Work’), 2 (‘Fact-Checking Sites’), 3 (‘Wikipedia’); Part III, Section 1 (‘Going Upstream to Find the Source’); Part IV (‘Reading Laterally’), Sections 1 (‘What Reading Laterally Means’), 18 (‘Basic Techniques: Web Domains, WHOIS’); 25 (‘Choosing Your Experts First’), 26 (‘Evaluating News Sources’), 27 (‘National Newspapers of Record’)
- Attendance/Introductions, cont’d
- Q&A: Four Strategies and a Habit
- Q&A: Evaluating News Sources
- Q&A: National Newspapers of Record
For Next Time
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 1 (‘Race in the Twenty-First Century’): ‘A Cancer’; ‘American Racism in the Twenty-First Century’
