LibGuides: Services for Faculty: News &amp; (Mis)Information

Tools to hep you and your students navigate
social media, news bias, and misinformation.

Common Hour Presentation: Students & the Great (MIS)Information Gap, 11/9/22
Emily Kizina, Katie Wirt, Chris Galluzzo, Dawnlyn Diehl, Lori Cunningham
Slides | Video

Cranky Uncle
Players are exposed to techniques that are used in science denial arguments.
Bad News Game
Exposes users to tactics that are used in social media to manipulate information for increased views so that they can be identified in the wild.
Go Viral Game
Focusesd on COVID-19 misinformation; covers these tactics: Emotion, Fake experts, Conspiracy theories.
Rumor Guard
Fact checking; shows how to apply evaluation criteria.

CRAAP Test
Classic evaluation checklist: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy & Purpose; useful for in-depth examination.
SIFT
Action driven tasks to examine context of information with lateral reading techniques: Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace.

FactCheck.Org
From Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania; focuses on election topics.
PolitiFact
From the Poynter Institute and Tampa Bay Times; focuses on bipartisan approach to fact check news.
Snopes
Developed in 1994, one of the longest running fact checking sites covering broad content.

Media Bias / Fact Check
Tracks sources on a bias spectrum and traces history and ownership of media organizations.
AllSides
Presents three articles on same news topics: left, center, right.
Media Bias Chart
Graphs media sources based on bias and reliability.

Library Resources

CORI has tutorials and videos on:

Get in touch with a librarian to embed this content and quizzes into your Blackboard course.

PrepSTEP includes tutorials on:

These two content pieces are found in College Success Skills Center > Information Literacy Skills.

Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Access cover-to-cover full text for national & international newspapers including the Post-Gazette & the Tribune Review.
News: Gale OneFile This link opens in a new window
Search current news and archives of full-text newspapers including the Tribune Review.
New York Times: NYTimes.com This link opens in a new window
Create an account for full unlimited access to NYTimes.com. Create Account | LogIn | Help & FAQs
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Search topical in-depth articles, about 15 - 20 pages long, on social issues. Show me how

Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Watch Oscar, Emmy, and Peabody award-winning documentaries relevant to every subject.
Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new window
Watch award winning documentaries and classic films in all subjects. To view Kanopy videos, you will need to create an account on the Kanopy site, but will then have unlimited access to the collection.
PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window
View streaming video documentaries and series from PBS.