Guides: Library Resources for Misinformation and Finding Common Ground: Additional Resources

Books

Agosto, D.E. (Ed.). (2018). Information Literacy and Libraries in the Age of Fake News. Libraries Unlimited.

Otis, C. (2020). True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News. Feiwel & Friends.

Levitan, D. (2017). Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era. Dutton.

Greenwood, V.E. (2020). Navigating Media Literacy: A Pedagogical Tour of Disneyland. Myers Education Press.

Barclay, D. (2018). Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Andrews, G. (2020). Keep Calm and Log On: Your Handbook for Surviving the Digital Revolution. The MIT Press.

Cooke, N. (2018). Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. ALA Editions.

Hobbs, R. (2021). Media Literacy in Action. Rowman & Littlefield.

Hobbs, R. (2020). Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age. W. W. Norton.

Lagarde, J., & Hudgins, D. (2018). Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News. International Society for Technology in Education.

Articles

Getting out the truth: the role of libraries in fighting fake news
Batchelor, O. (2017). Reference Services Review, 45(2), pp. 143-148. Emerald Publishing Ltd 0090-7324. DOI 10.1108/RSR-03-2017-0006
Students’ civic online reasoning: A national portrait
Breakstone, J., Smith, M., Wineburg, S., Rapaport, A., Carle, J., Garland, M., & Saavedra, A. (2019). Stanford History Education Group & Gibson Consulting.
Did media literacy backfire?
Boyd, D. (2017). Points Data & Society.
Re-Localizing the Library: Considerations for the Anthropocene
Brunvand, A. (2020). Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3(1).
Researching Bears Ears: Reference Practice for Civic Engagement
Brunvand, A. (2020). Reference Services Review, 48(1), 49-61.
November 8, 2016: Core Values, Bad Faith, and Democracy
Buschman, J. (2017). The Library Quarterly, 87(3), 277–286.
Post-truth, truthiness, and alternative facts: Information behavior and critical information consumption for a new age
Cooke, N., (2017a). Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 87(3), pp. 211–221.
What is disinformation?
Fallis, D. (2015). Library Trends, 63(3), pp. 401-426.
The lizard people in the library
Fister, B. (2021). Project Information Literacy Provocation Series.
American views: Trust, media, and democracy
Knight Foundation. (2018).
The science of fake news: Addressing fake news requires a multidisciplinary effort
Lazer, D. M. J., Baum, M. A., Benkler, Y., Berinsky, A. J., Greenhill, K. M., Menczer, F., Metzger, M. J., Nyhan, B., Pennycook, G., Rothschild, D., Schudson, M., Sloman, S. A., Sunstein, C. R., Thorson, E. A., Watts, D. J., & Zittrain, J. L. (2018). Science, 359(6380), 1094–1096. DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2998
Motivated reasoning, political information, and Information Literacy education
Lenker, M. (2016). Libraries and the Academy, 16(3): 511–528.
New research explores how public libraries can best combat misinformation
LaPierre, S. (2020). Public Libraries Online.
Academic integrity in an age of misinformation
Morris, S. (2019). International Center for Academic Integrity.
Librarians against fake news: A systematic literature review of library practices (Jan. 2018–Sept. 2020)
Revez, J. & Corujo, L. (2021). The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(2), p. 102304. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102304.
What Europe can teach America about Russian disinformation
Willard, J. (2018). The Atlantic.
Evaluating information: The cornerstone of civic online reasoning
Wineburg, S., McGrew, S., Breakstone, J., & Ortega, T. (2016). Stanford Digital Repository.