Open AccessBe aware: Elevate your news evaluation: Emphasizing media literacy, one library’s initiative
Author(s) -
Sara Davidson Squibb
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.78.10.541
Subject(s) - conversation , media literacy , information literacy , legitimacy , political science , literacy , media studies , news media , public relations , quality (philosophy) , sociology , library science , computer science , pedagogy , politics , law , philosophy , communication , epistemology
The following article outlines the University of California-Merced Library’s unfolding news evaluation campaign,1 shares our strategies, and reflects on our efforts. The impetus for this campaign came when a colleague shared Vanessa Otero’s News Quality Chart, a graphic that places news sources on X and Y axes, representing quality and partisan bias.2 Otero’s work, combined with increasing public concern and conversation about the legitimacy of news, propelled my colleagues and I to start discussing how we might emphasize media literacy, especially news evaluation. We started our discussion just prior to the spring semester, and we launched our campaign a few weeks later. Though this meant limited time for planning, we wanted to capitalize on this opportunity to promote information literacy by initiating and participating in a broader campus conversation about news evaluation.