Media Evaluation Resources
- BBC Disinformation Watch [Newsletter]Biweekly updates and stories about disinformation issues worldwide.
- Civic Online Reasoning (Stanford)A curriculum for teaching and learning how to evaluate online information from Stanford University.
- Data Journalism HandbookProduced by the European Journalism Centre. Available in several languages.
- eurotopics.net Media LandscapeGuide to the media landscape in most European countries and numerous other countries worldwide.
- Facing History and Ourselves, Mini-Lesson: Where Do We Get Our News and Why Does It Matter?One of 97 sets of online curricular materials on this site on the topic of propaganda.
- How partisan polarization drives the spread of fake news.By Mathias Osmundsen, Michael Bang Petersen, and Alexander Bor.
Tech Stream.
Washington: The Brookings Institution, 13 May 2021. - How to identify misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.From the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.
PDF version. - IREX's Learn to Discern Media Literary Project"IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way." -- from the home page
- Misinformation and Disinformation: A Guide for Protecting YourselfHow to recognize and deal with misinformation and disinformation. From security.org.
- The MLA Guide to Digital Literacy2nd edition, 2022.
Cornell only.
Online access to this ebook is funded by the Library. - Poynter InstituteA nonpartisan journalism site that sponsors the PolitiFact fact-checking team, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and much more.
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media2020.
Cornell only.
Online access to this encyclopedia is funded by the Library. - Web Literacy for Student Fact-CheckersPublished online by PressBooks in 2017 under a Creative Commons license.
- What are deepfakes – and how can you spot them?"AI-generated fake videos are becoming more common (and convincing). Here’s why we should be worried." Ian Sample. The Guardian, 13 January 2020.
- World Press Freedom Index (Reporters without Borders)Annual ranking by country of the status of freedom of the press.