Clickbait Bias and Propaganda in Information Networks

by Fister et al.

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Based on Mike Caulfield's Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, this is a short handbook for understanding and evaluating information in a networked environment that bombards us with misinformation, opinion, news, satire, memes, and all the feels.

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Subjects
Social Sciences, Communication
Licence
CC BY, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Chapter 1
  7. 2: Understanding Networked Information
  8. 2.1: Keywords
  9. 2.2: Four Moves . . .
  10. 2.3: . . . and a Habit- Check Your Emotions
  11. 2.4: Finding Already-Checked Facts
  12. 2.5: Handy Tricks for Fact-Checkers
  13. 2.6: What If I’m Not Sure About a Source’s Reliability?
  14. 2.7: Sorting News From Opinion
  15. 2.8: Stupid News Tricks
  16. 2.9: When Going Upstream Is Hard Work
  17. 2.10: How Social Media Platforms Intersect With News
  18. 3: Readings
  19. 3.1: Readings for IDS 101
  20. 3.2: Understanding Media and Information Quality in an Age of Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Algorithms and Machine Learning
  21. 3.3: Fake News and Fake Solutions- How Do We Build a Civics of Trust?
  22. 3.4: 3 Ways Facebook and Other Social Media Companies Could Clean Up Their Acts – If They Wanted To
  23. 4: Examining Platforms
  24. 4.1: Reddit- The Conversation Starts Here
  25. 4.2: Google
  26. 4.3: YouTube
  27. 4.4: Snapchat
  28. 4.5: 8chan
  29. 4.6: Twitter
  30. Back Matter
  31. Index
  32. Glossary
  33. Detailed Licensing