College students, and adults in general, may find it hard to identify trustworthy information
amid the proliferation of false news and misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. In …

The pervasive problem of misinformation requires fostering Internet users' information
literacy. Existing interventions raise the question of how the skills enabling the discernment …

Canadian middle and high school students (N= 2,278) completed a “CTRL-F” curriculum
teaching them how to evaluate online information by reading laterally to investigate sources …

Emerging communication technologies have seen the proliferation of misleading claims,
untruthful narratives, and conspiracies. To understand how people perceive and act on …

In keeping with Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the theoretical perspicacity of
Critical Race Theory, Lenoir and Anderson (2023) posit “technical solutions to political …

This research aims to analyze the evaluative criteria the US academic librarians employ in
their instructional worksheets and checklists to understand how academic librarians teach …

Alongside climate change, democracy, and public health, digital disinformation and
misinformation, or digital dismisinfo, stands among the most pressing of global challenges …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role skepticism plays among
adolescents' online information literacy skills. Design/methodology/approach The authors …

As a research tradition, participatory design (PD) tends to focus on power dynamics where
researchers hold greater power than participants. This paper uses design fiction to consider …

Abstract Basol et al.(2020) tested the “the Bad News Game”(BNG), an app designed to
improve ability to spot false claims on social media. Participants rated simulated Tweets …