Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information
By Sam Wineburg, sarah mcgrew. 2017
179 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5b269628f4dc29b514dfcb0b5e429e49fc0dae6d
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In Communication
- Thomas Nygren
- Mona Guath
- Joel Breakstone
- Mark D. Smith
- Jill Carle
- Amie Rapaport
- A. Saavedra
- Marshall W. Garland
In Sociology and Political Science
- Thomas Nygren
- Mona Guath
- Doug Lombardi
- Joel Breakstone
- Mark D. Smith
- Gale M. Sinatra
- Jill Carle
- Amie Rapaport
Citations in the corpus
- When Do Audiences Verify? How Perceptions About Message and Source Influence Audience Verification of News Headlines (2020, background): “In this article, we argue that audience verification requires an extra cognitive effort, one that audiences may generally be unwilling to expend or they may fail to recognize the situations in which verification is warranted (Edgerly, 2017; Wineburg & McGrew, 2017).”
- Evaluating sources of scientific evidence and claims in the post-truth era may require reappraising plausibility judgments (2020, background): “Although there is evidence that even so called digital natives (those born after the invention of the Internet) still struggle to identify “fake news” (Wineburg & McGrew, 2017), students and members of the public are becoming more aware that they cannot believe everything that they read on the…”
- Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait (2021, methodology): “We asked three groups to examine a series of websites: Stanford University students, university professors from five different institutions, and professional fact checkers from leading news outlets (Wineburg & McGrew, 2017).”
- Can Students Evaluate Online Sources? Learning From Assessments of Civic Online Reasoning (2018, background): “These competencies were developed based on ongoing research on how professional fact checkers evaluate online information (Wineburg & McGrew, 2017).”
- Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility (2019, background): “Further, citizens must be able to see how texts and images based upon scientific evidence are more reliable than biased information, intended to manipulate their opinions (Wineburg & McGrew, 2017).”