Internet and Social Media Reliability Resources
Searcher Magazine often provides link lists to their articles that reference resources. Last month they did a piece on the quality of information on the web. You can read the article online via EBSCO Megafile which carries Searcher. In the meantime, here's the article's list of links, including (under Rumor Checkers) our own FactCheck.org, at the top of the list of course.
ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO POST. OR IS IT? QUALITY INFORMATION & THE SOCIAL WEB by Nancy K. Herther
Searcher, Magazine for Database Professionals Vol. 19, No. 5 • June 2011
http://people-press.org/report/543/
http://people-press.org/report/554/news-iq-knowledge-quiz
http://people-press.org/report/319/public-knowledge-of-current-affairs-little-changed-by-news-and-information-revolutions
http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/
HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/223/
ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/03/exclusive-us-supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-considering-step-down
http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2010/
PIP_Understanding_the_Participatory_News_Consumer.pdf
http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010/
http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3768
INTERNET RUMOR CHECKERS
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/technology/05snopes.html
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/
http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.cjr.org/index.php
http://mediamatters.org/tags/issues
Labels: accuracy in media, fact checking, internet
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