One of the many pitfalls in knowledge as result of the Internet is the watering down of the term “research”.
You can look at the comments of any Facebook post regarding COVID-19, protestors, vaccines, sunscreen, and it’s littered with calls to “do your own research!”
Research has a very specific meaning, and that does not mean “here’s information that backs up what I already believe”.
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In response to the ongoing events, our librarians curated a list of anti-racism books that are available in our system.
This post is part of a series on social media and media literacy. To see all of our media literacy related posts, please click here.
In a previous post about information overload and it’s issues, we discussed how when our brains are overloaded, it’s hard to decide what’s real and what’s not on a good day. So now, when we’ve been overwhelmed for months with new information every day, it’s easy to fall into common media traps.
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