Nick Adams on textual analysis /
About this Podcast, The prevalence of supposed "fake news" has become an inescapable challenge for modern media consumers. Misinformation and disinformation in our media presents a threat to the legitimacy of our understandings of the world around us. Sociologist Nick Adams offers hope tha...
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| Format: | Audio eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications, Ltd.,
2019.
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| Series: | Social Science Bites.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this podcast |
| Summary: | About this Podcast, The prevalence of supposed "fake news" has become an inescapable challenge for modern media consumers. Misinformation and disinformation in our media presents a threat to the legitimacy of our understandings of the world around us. Sociologist Nick Adams offers hope that a textual analysis tool he has developed can improve the media literacy of the populaceThat tool, known as PublicEditor, allows trained volunteers--citizen scientists--to do one of seven assessment tasks in under 15 minutes, having read the passages from a news article. Several volunteers will answer a series of questions based on the passage, eliciting information about the passage's logical accuracy and critical thinking, and a "credibility score" will be posted on the article results. This should expose inferential mistakes, psychological biases, or argumentative fallacies within the article. Ultimately, PublicEditor's citizen science approach aims to solve a major social problem: the public's sense of helplessness and anxiety in the face of so much mis/disinformation |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (podcast (16 min., 24 sec.)) |
| ISBN: | 9781529736038 152973603X |