Digital platforms and ubiquitous access to these spaces have ushered in a new public mindset that ends in a refusal to accept any mainstream or official account of the world. Source: Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O’Byrne
Category: Literacy
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
False beliefs can be useful in a social sense even if they are not useful in a factual sense. For lack of a better phrase, we might call this approach “factually false, but socially accurate.” When we have to choose between the two, people often select friends and family over facts. Source: Why Facts Don’t […]
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
We don’t always believe things because they are correct. Sometimes we believe things because they make us look good to the people we care about. Source: Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss – Scientific American
dysrationalia Source: Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss – Scientific American
Design Principles for Effective Teacher Professional Development inIntegrated STEM Education: A Systematic Review
https://www.j-ets.net/collection/forthcoming-articles/24_4 Design Principles for Effective Teacher Professional Development inIntegrated STEM Education: A Systematic Review Source: 24_4_11.pdf – Google Drive
Data & Society — Data Voids
Outdated Terms: When terms go out of date, content creators stop producing content associated with these terms long before searchers stop seeking out content.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
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 […]
