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Media Literacy for Adults: Misinformation and Disinformation

February 10, 2021
Short Title
Media Literacy for Adults: Misinformation and Disinformation
Summary

Fake news can be difficult to combat because of how quickly it spreads. How can library workers help patrons decipher between what is real and what is fake?

Description

Join us for a free webinar as part of a new series on Media Literacy in the Library.

Fake news can be difficult to combat because of how quickly it spreads throughout the online sphere. How can library workers help patrons decipher between what is real and what is fake? In this webinar, Nicole Cooke of the University of South Carolina School of Information Science will discuss how libraries and information organizations are in prime positions to assist their students and patrons with disputing misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.

View other webinars in this series and download the practitioner's guide.

Learning outcomes

Participants will:

  • Learn how to teach their patrons to be savvy information consumers
  • Be provided with library program ideas and starters around misinformation and disinformation
  • Learn about resources they can provide to patrons and effective discussion questions on misinformation

Resources

Media Literacy Education in Libraries for Adult Audiences is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant LG-13-19-0089-19.

 

Recorded on
02/10/2021
Timezone
Central
Duration
1 Hour
Presenters

Nicole A. Cooke is the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and an associate professor at the School of Library and Information Science, at the University of South Carolina. Her research and teaching interests include human information behavior, fake news consumption and resistance, critical cultural information studies, and diversity and social justice in librarianship. Nicole was awarded the 2016 ALA Equality Award, and she was presented with the 2017 ALA Achievement in Library Diversity Research Award, presented by the Office for Diversity and Literacy Outreach Services. She has also been honored as the Illinois Library Association’s 2019 Intellectual Freedom Award winner in recognition of her work in combating online hate and bullying in LIS, and she was selected as the Association for Library and Information Science Education's 2019 Excellence in Teaching award winner. Nicole has published numerous articlesand book chapters. Her latest books are “Information Services to Diverse Populations” (Libraries Unlimited, 2016) and “Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-truth Era" (ALA Editions. 2018).

 

 

 

 

Cost
Free
Location
Virtual
Registration Deadline
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Popular Topics
Media literacy