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Digital Studies: Evaluate Sources
What kind of journal is this?
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.
- The Center for Media Literacy's 5 Core ConceptsSome great questions to ask yourself when you're evaluating a media source.
- Fairness and Accuracy in ReportingIs media bias more structural than political?
- Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in JournalismA site focusing on journalism as an industry, looking at trends in its business and reporting.
- 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.
- Evaluating Online Information--Fact or Fiction?From Learn the Net: The Internet Owner's Manual
- Evaluating Web Content (State University of New York - Albany)"This guide offers tips for evaluating the quality of content on the Web."
- 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.
- Thinking Critically about Web 2.0 and Beyond (UCLA Library)"specific points regarding social networking and other sites that offer user-initiated options"
- Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources (UCLA Library)Points to consider in evaluating WWW sites.
Subjects: Digital Studies
- Last Updated: Oct 26, 2023 10:44 AM
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