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ERIC Number: EJ1242145
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 24
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1933-5954
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From Syndication to Misinformation: How Undergraduate Students Engage with and Evaluate Digital News
Evanson, Cara; Sponsel, James
Communications in Information Literacy, v13 n2 Article 6 p228-250 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 syndication and fake URLs posed challenges for them in making accurate evaluations. Additionally, students indicated they would share a tweet containing an impostor URL at higher rates than they would share the other news story examples. The findings have implications for how educators teach students to evaluate misinformation.
Communications in Information Literacy. e-mail: editors@comminfolit.org; Web site: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: North Carolina
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