Outdated Terms: When terms go out of date, content creators stop producing content associated with these terms long before searchers stop seeking out content. This creates an opening for manipulators to produce content that exploits search engines’ dependence on freshness. Source: Data & Society — Data Voids
Category: Information Literacy
Data & Society — Data Voids
Strategic New Terms: Manipulators create new terms and build a strategically optimized information ecosystem around them before amplifying those terms into the mainstream, often through news media, in order to introduce newcomers to problematic content and frames. Source: Data & Society — Data Voids
Data & Society — Data Voids
Michael Golebiewski of Microsoft coined the term “data void” in May 2018 to describe search engine queries that turn up little to no results, especially when the query is rather obscure, or not searched often. Source: Data & Society — Data Voids
Copyright Continues To Be Abused To Censor Critics By Entities Both Big And Small | Techdirt
We need to change the way we protect copyright online A week after posting it, Quentin’s video got flagged for a copyright claim and was blocked. He fought that claim and the video was put back online. Then, months later, Quentin was assessed his first copyright strike by YouTube, meaning his account was now in […]
Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers » Nieman Journalism Lab
People have a limited amount of effort they’ll expend on verification, the lack of knowledge here may be as big a barrier as other cognitive biases. Why we aren’t vigorously addressing issues like this in order to build a more resilient information network (or even to just help students study efficiently!) is something I continue […]
Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers » Nieman Journalism Lab
The first thing you have to do to verify it is click the link. And right there, most students don’t know they should do that. They really don’t. It’s where most students fail, actually, their lack of link-clicking. Source: Ctrl-F: Helping make networks more resilient against misinformation can be as simple as two fingers » […]
September | 2021 | Hapgood
Anyway, this is my attempted contribution to get us past the endless cycle where people involved with theorizing one level explain to people theorizing the other levels why their work is not the Real Work (TM). In reality, no link in the intervention chain can function meaningfully without the others. (And yes, I am mixing […]
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Students would benefit, Caulfield says, if professors spent more time explaining how their discipline functions. Who do the experts turn to to understand how something in their field works? How is knowledge built? Describing to students how the World Health Organization comes up with its guidance around Covid-19, and how that differs from the CDC’s […]
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Put another way, the internet may have democratized access to raw data and information, but consumers can’t possibly make sense of it all on their own. Caulfield believes professors should talk about this challenge openly with their students. Source: Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Source: Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
