A rich data set from analysis conducted by SparkToro. Zero-click searches have steadily risen over the past three years, up from 12% in 2016 to 48.96% in 2019. No click, or zero-click, searches are a search engine result page (SERP) that displays the answer to a user’s query at the top of a Google search…
Mike Caulfield on “four moves” that students can make as they critically evaluate online information. Stop. Investigate the source. Find better coverage. Trace claims, quotes, and media to the original context.
For their final capstone project for Bradley Voytek’s COGS 108 course at UCSD, a group of students examined potential disparities between actual deaths and their corresponding media attention. The final project is excellent. The subject matter…and the interactive data charts as well. For anyone curious about any of the steps throughout this project, the original data and…
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/
An interactive piece from CNN focusing on the role of education, critical media literacy, and the fight against fake news. “What we want our students to do is … before they like or share in the social media they think twice – who has written this? Where has it been published? Can I find the…
A good overview on how augmented reality (AR) will propel mobile and app development in the coming years. Much of this technology is already here…it depends on how users will use it. SOURCE: ReadWrite
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Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of the book “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children,” in which she describes two distinct type of parents: gardeners and carpenters. The Gardener Parent vs. the…
An interview with Dr. Howard Stevenson from the series on racial literacy & tech from Data & Society Faculty Fellow Jessie Daniels. This is the first interview in a series on racial literacy and tech, curated by Data & Society 2018–19 Faculty Fellow Jessie Daniels. It expands on ideas from her new paper Advancing Racial Literacy…
Craig Axford making the case that the news about Cambridge Analytica and their data collection on around 50 million users is not a new story at all. However, such manipulation has been playing an increasingly overt role in our society since the early 20th century. Axford begins with a quote by Jason Stanley from his…