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Keeping It Real- Topic 2 Reflection

Created by Chloe Cheung Using Canva Introduction I found this week’s topic very engaging, as fake news is an ongoing issue that many online users face. As a result, I commented on three blog posts this week. This furthered my learning, providing a solid understanding on detection, prevention and awareness of fake news. Media Literacy + Fake News Evaluation The discussion with Tewsdae made me aware of how information is distributed online. Continue reading →

Keeping It Real- Topic 2 Reflection

Created by Chloe Cheung Using Canva Introduction I found this week’s topic very engaging, as fake news is an ongoing issue that many online users face. As a result, I commented on three blog posts this week. This furthered my learning, providing a solid understanding on detection, prevention and awareness of fake news. Media Literacy + Fake News Evaluation The discussion with Tewsdae made me aware of how information is distributed online. Continue reading →

Outside my filter bubble

This week topic once again emphasised the importance of obtaining evaluating skills that allow us to stay safe on the Internet. Having read others’ blogs about fake news, we all have very similar measures to assess the reliability of information. Furthermore, I have learnt that reliability of a source should not be determined solely on presented information but also on the data being used. By taking part of Futurelearn course, I came across how different visualisation of a dataset (Yua, n.d. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Make News Great Again

This week I feel like the content I produced, compared to other weeks, was not up to scratch. I couldn’t get my head around how to approach the topic of ‘Fake News’ and I think that that is evident from this week’s blog post and the poor structuring of it. I tried to take on board comments from last week’s feedback about having headings, and while I agree that headings are a good idea I think the implementation of them made the flow of my blog suffer. Continue reading →

Reflection post- Topic 2

Reflecting on the topic:  From reading a range of different blogs, I can conclude that finding reliable and authentic information is challenging. Reflecting upon Luke’s (2018) blog only highlighted the importance of our information, data and media literacy in differentiating fact from fake.  I found it important to ask myself a few questions about my engagement with the web (see Figure 1)!  Questions to ask myself about my engagement with the web (Created on Piktochart by Boyle, 2018). Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

A reflection on Filter Bubbles and Fake News

In this weeks blog post I attempted to create my own video using PowToon again. I still find this process very hard, however also embedded other useful information into the blog to aid the points I was making. The general consensus from people’s blogs was that people often see such news spread across social media, however make sure to double check stories they see as suspicious. Continue reading →

We’ll believe nearly anything

This topic has definitely given me some insight into how people interpret content they see online. Majority of people live in echo chambers and filter bubble without realising, so they don’t see any need to change the way they interact with the web. After reading Hong’s post, I realised that the use of Personal Learning Networks can help with avoiding filter bubbles, but it is more effective with escaping echo chambers. Continue reading →

We’ll believe nearly anything

This topic has definitely given me some insight into how people interpret content they see online. Majority of people live in echo chambers and filter bubble without realising, so they don’t see any need to change the way they interact with the web. After reading Hong’s post, I realised that the use of Personal Learning Networks can help with avoiding filter bubbles, but it is more effective with escaping echo chambers. Continue reading →

We’ll believe nearly anything

This topic has definitely given me some insight into how people interpret content they see online. Majority of people live in echo chambers and filter bubble without realising, so they don’t see any need to change the way they interact with the web. After reading Hong’s post, I realised that the use of Personal Learning Networks can help with avoiding filter bubbles, but it is more effective with escaping echo chambers. Continue reading →

Topic 2: “We are not the arbiters of truth”

In the world of tweets and hashtags, is it surprising that falsified information travels faster and further across the rails of the social network than real news? (Vosoughi, 2018) The truth is the power of novelty and the emotion churning nature of a fictitious title and fabricated content drives engagements through impressions in the digital sphere (Kantar Millward Brown, 2017). We call it ClickBait.  Take a look at the engagements on the U.S. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Assessing Online Information

  Social media is currently the fastest carrier of information, providing instant news much quicker to a wider audience, as opposed to more traditional news outlets and sources (John Hopkins Sheridan Library, 2017). Though, when we evaluate the differences between print sources and online information we are able to identify distinctions between the quality of sources and how to be wary when using online sources. Created by Yusra Huque-Dowlet using Piktochart. Reference: Elmer E. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Assessing Online Information

  Social media is currently the fastest carrier of information, providing instant news much quicker to a wider audience, as opposed to more traditional news outlets and sources (John Hopkins Sheridan Library, 2017). Though, when we evaluate the differences between print sources and online information we are able to identify distinctions between the quality of sources and how to be wary when using online sources. Created by Yusra Huque-Dowlet using Piktochart. Reference: Elmer E. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Assessing Online Information

  Social media is currently the fastest carrier of information, providing instant news much quicker to a wider audience, as opposed to more traditional news outlets and sources (John Hopkins Sheridan Library, 2017). Though, when we evaluate the differences between print sources and online information we are able to identify distinctions between the quality of sources and how to be wary when using online sources. Created by Yusra Huque-Dowlet using Piktochart. Reference: Elmer E. Continue reading →