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Research Guides

Center for Teaching Excellence

Resources at Geisel Library relevant to teaching and learning.

Selected Useful Resources

Most of Geisel's print books on teaching information literacy are located in Melinda's office.

News Literacy: the keys to combating fake news by Michelle Luhtala; Jacquelyn Whiting
Call Number: ZA3075 .L84 2018
ISBN: 9781440861529
Publication Date: 2018-05-09
Fake News and Alternative Facts: information literacy in a post-truth era by Nicole A. Cooke
Call Number: Head of Ref Office ZA3075 .C675 2018
ISBN: 9780838916360
Publication Date: 2018-05-14
Teaching Information Literacy by Joanna M. Burkhardt; Mary C. MacDonald
Call Number: ZA3075 .B87 2010
ISBN: 9780838910535
Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts by Patricia Bravender; Hazel Dean McClure; Gayle Schaub
Call Number: ZA3075 .T434 2015
ISBN: 0838987710
Transforming Information Literacy Instruction Using Learner-Centered Teaching by Joan R. Kaplowitz
Call Number: ZA3075 .K37 2012
ISBN: 9781555707651
Information Literacy Instruction That Works by Patrick Ragains
Call Number: ZA3075 .I537 2006
ISBN: 1555705731
Deciding What's True: the rise of political fact-checking in American journalism by Lucas Graves
Call Number: PN4784.O24 G73 2016
ISBN: 9780231175074
Publication Date: 2016-09-06
A Field Guide to Lies: critical thinking in the information age by Daniel J. Levitin
Call Number: Gen Coll. BC177 .L486 2016
ISBN: 0525955224
Not Just Where to Click: teaching students how to think about information by Troy A. Swanson; Heather Jagman
Call Number: ZA3075 .N68 2015
ISBN: 9780838987162
The New Digital Scholar: exploring and enriching the research and writing practices of NextGen students by Randall McClure (Editor); James P. Purdy (Editor)
Call Number: Gen Coll. LB2369 .N39 2013
ISBN: 9781573874755
The Information-Literate Historian: a guide to research for history students by Jenny L. Presnell
Call Number: Gen Coll D16.2 .P715 2013
ISBN: 9780199926046
In Defense of Science: why scientific literacy matters by Frank R. Spellman; Joni Price-Bayer
Call Number: Gen Coll Q172 .S64 2011
ISBN: 9781605907109
I Found It on the Internet: coming of age online by Frances Jacobson Harris
Call Number: Online via Ebrary
ISBN: 0838910661
Publication Date: 2010

Why librarians can’t fight fake news
Sullivan, M. C. (2019). Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(4), 1146-1156.
Want to resist the post-truth age? Learn to analyze photos like an expert would
Nicole Dahman and Don Heider
Quartz
Feb 5, 2017
Educating for Democracy in a Partisan Age: Confronting the Challenges of Motivated Reasoning and Misinformation
Kahne, J., & Bowyer, B. (2017). American Educational Research Journal, 54(1), 3-34.
Can science literacy help individuals identify misinformation in everyday life?
Sharon, A. J., & Baram‐Tsabari, A. (2020). Science Education (Salem, Mass.), 104(5), 873-894.
Does Media Literacy Help Identification of Fake News? Information Literacy Helps, but Other Literacies Don’t
Jones-Jang, S. M., Mortensen, T., & Liu, J. (2021;2019;). The American Behavioral Scientist (Beverly Hills), 65(2), 371-388.
From Syndication to Misinformation: How Undergraduate Students Engage with and Evaluate Digital News
Evanson, C., Sponsel, J., & Davidson College. (2019). Communications in Information Literacy, 13(2), 228-250.
Why America is Self-Segregating
Danah Boyd
Points
Jan 5, 2017
Six questions that will tell you what media to trust
Tom Rosenstiel
American Press Institute
Oct 22, 2013
“Fake News” Is Not Simply False Information: A Concept Explication and Taxonomy of Online Content
Molina, M. D., Sundar, S. S., Le, T., & Lee, D. (2021;2019;).The American Behavioral Scientist (Beverly Hills), 65(2), 180-212.
EVALUATING INFORMATION: THE CORNERSTONE OF CIVIC ONLINE REASONING
Stanford History Education Group
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
2011
False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources
Melissa Zimdars
Merrimack College
November 2011

Hoaxy: Visualize the Spread of Claims and Fact Checking Online
University of Indiana
Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data
Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West, Univerisity of Washington
Online course and materials
[M|D]isinformation Reading List
Clair Wardle
First Draft News
June 1, 2016
FirstDraftNews
Geared toward journalists, resources and links to online projects related to digital information and media literacy.
Fake News Geisel Guide
Information Literacy in the Disciplines
Links to articles and resources regarding info lit within specific disciplines.
ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education

The real history of fake news
David Uberti
Dec 15, 2016
Magazines find there’s little time to fact-check online
Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin and Susan Currie Sivek
Mar 23, 2017
Who cares if it’s true? Modern-day newsrooms reconsider their values
Marc Fisher
Mar 3, 2014
Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda
Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman
Mar 3, 2017
Fact-checking at The New Yorker An excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines
Peter Canby
Oct 23, 2012
The New Yorker’s chief fact-checker on how to get things right in the era of ‘post-truth’
Shelley Hepworth
Mar 8, 2017