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Verified : how to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online /

Title:
Verified : how to think straight, get duped less, and make better decisions about what to believe online /
Author:
Caulfield, Mike, author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emerson College
Contents:
Get quick context: it can take as little as thirty seconds, seriously! -- Cheap signals: Or, how not to get duped -- Google: the bestie you thought you knew -- Lateral reading: using the Web to read the Web -- Reading the room: benefiting from expertise when you have only a bit yourself -- Show me the evidence: why scholarly sources are better than promotional materials, newsletters, and random tweets -- Wikipedia: not what your middle school teacher told you -- Video games: the dirty tricks of deceptive video -- Stealth advertising: when ads masquerade as news -- Once more with feeling: using your emotions to find the truth -- Conclusion: Critical ignoring -- Postscript: Large language models, ChatGPT, and the future of verification.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emerson Main Stacks
ZA4065 .C38 2023 – Available