In his recently published article Assistant Professor of Communication Mo Jang investigated whether media literacy is helpful in combatting fake news. This piece is featured in the special issue "fake ...

Anyone who has a tween or teen in their life—or has come across one of them in the wild—can attest that middle and high school students love their mobile devices. Forty-six percent of U.S. teens say ...

We’re developing a seven-week course that we proposed after a history professor urged the library to teach a course on fake news that everyone should have to take. We’re not using the fraught phrase ...

When David Oxtoby said in a 2011 speech that “facts matter,” the president of Pomona College could not have known that “post-truth” would be the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016. Teaching ...

Every day, critics of the American president decry his penchant for “false or misleading claims,” while he and his supporters fire back with accusations of “fake news.” It’s no wonder those of us who ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way information is produced, distributed, and consumed in digital spaces. As AI technologies become more integrated into everyday communication, ...

“The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.”—Vartan Gregorian, president, Carnegie Corporation of New York ...