id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt projectinfolit-org-8685 Lizard People in the Library | PIL Provocation Series .html text/html 3866 169 38 Years ago, in a trenchant critique of information literacy theory and practice, library and information science scholar Christine Pawley argued that we need to teach students "how information 'works'" — not just how to find and select information as if it's a market good to be produced and consumed, but rather to understand the social and economic contexts that influence how information is created and circulated. Indeed, in focus groups conducted by Project Information Literacy in 2019 for the algorithm study, college students expressed concern about whether younger people and the elders in their lives understood how social media platforms work and how to recognize disinformation. Bull (September 15, 2020), "The shape of news," Covid-19: The first 100 days of U.S. news coverage: Lessons about the media ecosystem for librarians, educators, students, and journalists, Project Information Literacy Research Institute, https://projectinfolit.org/pubs/covid19-first-100-days/shape-of-coronavirus-story/index.html ./cache/projectinfolit-org-8685.html ./txt/projectinfolit-org-8685.txt