The pandemic isn’t fake news: Fighting harmful narratives with credible sources
- Date
- July 14, 2020
- Time
- 1:00 PM EDT - 1:30 PM EDT
Lisa Levesque
Assessment and Liaison Librarian, Toronto Metropolitan University
Description
How do we know if the information we encounter is trustworthy? This is a tricky question at the best of times, let alone during a global pandemic that generates fear and rapidly changing facts. This workshop will cover fake news issues that have arisen during COVID-19 and offer five practical tips for identifying dubious online information and replacing it with authoritative sources. In doing so it will ask participants to consider the harmful narratives underlying fake news and how to take action against them.
Bio
Lisa Levesque (BA, MA, MLIS) is an Assessment Librarian & Liaison Librarian for Journalism, Communication and Culture, and RTA Media Broadcasting and Sport Media at Toronto Metropolitan University Library. Her research focuses on the ways that infrastructure shapes human action, especially in online environments. Recent research includes a practical guide to evaluative literacy skills, theoretical research on how early career professionals navigate systems of power and qualitative studies on research habits and library services.
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