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From Syndication to Misinformation: How Undergraduate Students Engage with and Evaluate Digital News
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Download full textEvanson, Cara; Sponsel, James – Communications in Information Literacy, 2019
To determine how undergraduate students engage with digital news, researchers at Davidson College surveyed 511 incoming first-year students on their news consumption habits and asked them to evaluate screenshots of news stories. The researchers found that a high percentage of the students were accessing news through social media platforms and that…
Descriptors: News Reporting, College Freshmen, Information Literacy, Social Media
