Do Your Biases Affect Your Research &
How You Interact with Information?
Take How Does Your Own Biases Affect How You Interpret Information?
survey here.
Read chapter 1 of Bias Is All Around You book.
(This book is a nonprofit effort. I do not receive any income from it)
In 2018 I had presented a unique paper to suggest legislation and other
social media policies to help offset a growing number of fake internet ads
masquerading as news at the Oxford 2018 Internet, Policy, & Politics
Conference. At that conference I learned that some people will share
social media posts without vetting them to get a political candidate elected.
As recently as 2020 I further discovered some people in my own social
networks were sharing unvetted information and spreading false narratives.
The idea to write Bias Is All Around You: A Handbook for Inspecting
Social Media & News Stories soon unfolded and came as a result of the
misinformation associated with the 2020 U.S. election, the pandemic, and
much uncivil unrest.
Continue reading the entire book when you can. It is short with only
57 pages and includes a Bias Assessment Form you can use to assess
bias levels of any social media piece of information or news story you
encounter as well as the sources you use for college essays.
For this paper, first summarize the 7 sources and include one thought
about what each means to you. Discuss KLEMP and how it can help
you ascertain bias levels in any piece of published information.
Discuss how you believe critical thinking and understanding fallacies
will affect your use of media moving forward.
BE SURE YOU INCLUDE A MIX OF PARAPHRASES AND QUOTES TO
DEFEND YOUR CLAIMS FROM THE BOOK.
Now, reflect on how you use information in social media from news stories
and even academic sources you gather for work reports and school papers.
include at least two paragraphs on this. You are reflecting on your future use
of social media and news stories as well as academic sources for papers,
having read the Bias Is All Around You Book, (57 pages) thinking about its
reliabiity tests, how to best critically think, how to use KLEMP and analyze
fallacies, moving forward. Now….. how will you interact with information
bombarding you on your smartphone, and information you look up?
