Donald A. Barclay

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies (eBook, ePUB)

How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles? Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most trustworthy information in order to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. . Learn how to identify the alarm bells that signal untrustworthy information. . Understand how to tell when statistics can be trusted and when they are being used to deceive. . Inoculate yourself against the logical fallacies that can mislead even the brightest among us. Donald A. Barclay, a career librarian who has spent decades teaching university students to become information literate scholars and citizens, takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the complex and nuanced topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538108901
• Artikelnr.: 56828690

Autorenporträt

Donald A. Barclay worked as an academic librarian from 1990 until his retirement in 2022, during his library career holding positions at New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, the Texas Medical Center, and the University of California, Merced. Barclay began working at the University of California, Merced in 2002, before ground was broken on what would become the first (and thus far only) new U.S. research university of the twenty-first century. The unique opportunity of creating an academic research library from the ground up at a time when digital technology was expanding into every aspect of human life and radically transforming scholarly communication allowed him to both closely observe and actively participate in the biggest technological change to hit libraries since the advent of printing from moveable type.

Barclay has authored numerous articles and books over the course of his career on topics ranging from the literature of the American West to children's literature to library and information science. His book, Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in June 2018 and spent two months as an Amazon #1 New Release. His follow up book, Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2022.
Barclay earned his bachelor's degree from Boise State University and holds masters' degrees in both English and Library and Information Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to working as a librarian, he spent four years teaching college writing as well as ten seasons working as a wildland fire fighter, mostly as a member of a U.S. Forest Service Hotshot Crew. He lives in Merced, California with his wife Caroline Dawson and their three daughters, Tess, Emily, and Alexandra.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Credible Information: Why It Matters, What Are Its Limitations
Chapter 2: Fake News as Phenomenon: (Almost) Nothing New Under the Sun
Chapter 3: Tricks of the Trade: Techniques that Lower Your Information
Guard Chapter 4:Logical Fallacies: More Tools of Deception Chapter 5:
Evaluating an Information Source: Nine Essential Questions Everyone Should
Ask Chapter 6: Power in Numbers: Negotiating the Statistics Minefield
Chapter 7: Scholarly Information: Identifying, Evaluating, and
Understanding It Chapter 8: Help Is Where You Find It: Resources for
Evaluating Information Final Thoughts