Navigating Digital Information #3

Multiple Choice

"How do you even find a source in a world where no one has to cite sources, and what citations do exist are perpetually disappearing?" What is a citation?

• The action or process of observing something in order to gain information.

• A quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author.

• A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

An algorithm is a sequence of instructions that a computer must perform to solve a well-defined problem. It essentially defines what the computer needs to do and how to do it. Algorithms can instruct a computer how to perform a calculation, process data, or make a decision.

Examples of social media algorithms.

Instagram algorithm

Determines the order of posts in a user's feed. It prioritizes relevant posts and gives them more visibility. 

TikTok algorithm

Uses video information like captions, sounds, and hashtags to find similar content to help push similar content to viewers' feeds. 

YouTube algorithm
An AI-driven system that selects and suggests videos based on user interactions (like comments and likes) and how relevant the content is.

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a social media algorithm?

• A set of related web pages located under a single domain name, typically produced by a single person or organization.

• A learning-based recommendation system that determines which content users see in their feeds.

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Discuss with your table partner for 1 minute:


Have you ever noticed that related content pops up on TikTok, Youtube, Instagram etc. when you watch a particular type of content? For example, if you watch one video about food, more videos about food pop up?

What type of things do you find on your social media algorithm?

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All your information is produced by someone, but it's also produced for ​

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Multiple Choice

Pretending to be someone you're not online is called...

• bandwidth

• catfishing

• encryption

Multiple Choice

Why does it matter that a local internet provider was behind the site Stop City-Funded Internet?

• They were a corporation which means they shouldn't be creating a website.

• They were motivated to stop city-funded internet for their own financial gain and lying about it.

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reading is staying on the same website to determine its credibility. ​

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reading is checking what other sources say about the website.

Multiple Choice

Many websites look legitimate when you're reading vertically, because you're only seeing...

• What their creators want you to see.

• An objective version of the truth.

• All the important information necessary to evaluate the veracity of the information.

Discuss with your table partner for 1 minute:


Have you ever been lied to? How did you find out it was a lie? Did you find out from the person who lied to you, or from a different source?

Multiple Choice

"And, creators know what we think make websites look authoritative: a well-designed logo, references and citations, professional photography, no grammatical errors or typos."

What does autoritative mean?

• Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.

• 
  not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.

• Able to be trusted as being accurate or true; reliable.

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For lateral reading, instead of staying put and taking the website's word for it, you should ​

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One place where you can find basic information about a site to determine if it's reliable is ​

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it's important to know that many online news organizations have their own ​

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Multiple Choice

Some examples of fact-checking web sites are...

• Wikipedia and Google

• Instagram and Twitter

• Snopes and Politifact

Multiple Choice

"The media does not exist. It's not a monolith. It is a very large, diverse industry made up of individuals with vastly different viewpoints. "

What does monolith mean?

• A government structure involving two houses, or two legislative bodies, that are separate in deliberation from one another.

• a group treated as one thing, with all the same opinions and motivations.

• Involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies.

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Wikipedia is actually also the largest ​

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work on the web.

Discuss with your table partner for 1 minute:

Do you use Wikipedia? If so, how do you use it? If not, why not? What do you use instead?

Multiple Choice

Information is "flawed, biased, and imperfect" because it is made by...

• computers

• people

Open Ended

"Instead of asking why read laterally, I think we should consider what we lose when we don't read laterally. When we passively scroll through information feeds and accept what seems true and dismiss what seems wrong."

What do you think we could lose if we don't actively seek the truth when we look at information online? Please write at least 3 sentences. (I don't know and similar answers are not acceptable.)