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Digital Studies: Evaluate Sources
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Evaluating Popular Media
Media saturates our lives and constructs a reality for us. How can you make sure you reflect on both the message and the messenger? These links can help provide perspective.
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Fairness and Accuracy in ReportingIs media bias more structural than political?
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Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in JournalismA site focusing on journalism as an industry, looking at trends in its business and reporting.
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Canons of JournalismThe way journalism is supposed to work.
Evaluating Web Resources - General
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Evaluating Internet Information (Virginia Tech)Criteria for sorting out good and bad information, along with examples.
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Evaluating Web Content (State University of New York - Albany)"This guide offers tips for evaluating the quality of content on the Web."
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Evaluating Webpages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask (U.C. Berkeley Library)Lists a series of questions to ask yourself about the website you are evaluating with implications for the answers to those questions.
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Thinking Critically about Web 2.0 and Beyond (UCLA Library)"specific points regarding social networking and other sites that offer user-initiated options"
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Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA Library)Points to consider in evaluating WWW sites.
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