Full Description
Our society faces international challenges from cyber attacks and dissemination of fake news with a goal to destabilize our society. Fake news can be used as a weapon with destructive effects as powerful as any military attack. Fake news can spread as fast as a wildfire carried on the winds of social media. Students and all citizens need to be prepared and informed of ways to quickly understand and distinguish real and fake news. Preventing the potential destructive effects of fake news is the purpose of this book. The focus is upon providing a resource for educators to develop "news literacy" skills of students in objectively evaluating the news.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: Background and Hurdles for Evaluating the News
1. Background
2. Hurdles
PART II: Sources and Terms of Accurate and Fake News
3. Sources
4. Terms and Vocabulary
PART III: Collecting Information in Real and Fake News
5. Obtaining a Sample of Persons or Documents
6. Instruments Used to Collect Information
7. Types of Information
8. Analyzing Information
9. Interpreting Information
10. Promises or Recommendations
PART IV: How Fake News Persuades
11. Techniques of Fake News Communication
12. Fake News about Education
PART V: Preventing Fake News from Spreading
13. Protecting Against Fake News
14. Instructional Activities
15. Recommendations
References
Index
