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Download full textGaultney, Ira Bruce; Sherron, Todd; Boden, Carrie – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2022
Today's college students grew up with digital news media and social media readily available on their smartphones. As a result, students are likely to use their smartphones to access the news through social media where partisan misinformation is easily spread. Efforts to combat the spread of misinformation on social media are being explored on…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Media Literacy, Undergraduate Students, Social Media
From Syndication to Misinformation: How Undergraduate Students Engage with and Evaluate Digital News
Evanson, 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
Farmer, Lesley S. J. – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2019
The high profile of fake news reveals underlying trends in the production and consumption of news. While news literacy is a lifelong skill, the logical time to start teaching such literacy is in K-12 educational settings, so that all people have the opportunity to learn and practice news literacy. School librarians can play a critical role in…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Critical Literacy, Deception, Teaching Methods
