{"id":3783,"date":"2018-10-26T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:06","slug":"how-students-engage-with-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/10\/26\/how-students-engage-with-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How students engage with the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectinfolit.org\/uploads\/2\/7\/5\/4\/27541717\/newsreport.pdf\">US based Project information literacy<\/a> which has implications for librarians and educators concerned with information literacy and the fight against fake news.<\/p>\n<p>During 2017\/18 a\u00a0sample of 5,844 respondents returned an online survey administered at 11 U.S. colleges, universities, and community colleges.\u00a0 Topics discussed include competency in evaluating sources and use of social media for finding and understanding news stories.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings<br \/>\nMore than half of the college students in the study (51%) lacked the confidence to recognize \u201cfake news\u201d; more than one-third (36%) agreed that \u201cfake news\u201d had made them distrust the credibility of all news.\u00a0 As many survey respondents acknowledged, the ability to navigate the news landscape is critical in a democracy.\u00a0 This skill, however, takes time to develop.<\/p>\n<p>The study authors recommended that teaching of competencies in finding information sources should occur from a young age at school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from the US based Project information literacy which has implications for librarians and educators concerned with information literacy and the fight against fake news. During 2017\/18 a\u00a0sample of 5,844 respondents returned an online survey administered at 11 U.S. colleges, universities, and community colleges.\u00a0 Topics discussed include competency in evaluating sources and use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[398,64,82,509,95],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media-and-communication","tag-fake-news","tag-journalism","tag-social-media","tag-students","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}