ORCID

Winn W. Wasson: 0000-0001-5117-6813

Document Type

Article

Date

8-14-2024

Keywords

information literacy, misinformation, disinformation media literacy, association of college and research libraries, acrl, politics policy and international relations section, ppirs

Language

English

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Description/Abstract

In January 2019, I taught a condensed credit-bearing media literacy course for undergraduates based on the ACRL Frame, “Information Creation as Process”. My main learning objective was to teach students to recognize accurate information, misinformation, and disinformation in the news and on social media, not by naming them as such, but by: 1) exposing students to the process through which news goes from field observations to a published or broadcast story, and 2) exploring current social and cognitive psychology research on how humans evaluate whether to believe the information they consume. The course ended with a discussion of healthy information consumption habits. I incorporated guest-speaker presentations and field trips, in which students interacted with practitioners and researchers in the fields of journalism, politics, and psychology. For a final project, students each created a media product exploring a topic of their choice related to misinformation and disinformation in news media.

Additional Information

This presentation was given as part of an online event organized by the Professional Development Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Politics, Policy, and International Relations Section (PPIRS).

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