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HowStuffWorks "How Scientific Peer Review Works"
Great in-depth exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of the peer review process, and its role in the larger context of scientific endeavor.
Evaluating Web Pages
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Add Sticky NoteLook at the facts the author provides, and the facts the author doesn't provide.
- Note well. This separates thinkers from mere readers. - on 2009-11-24
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Is the author fair, balanced, and moderate in his/her views, or is the author overly emotional or extreme?
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Jon Stewart explores the true costs of having to watch Hannity (and bids adieu to Lou Dobbs) | Crooks and Liars
"FOX News: We alter reality. We are selling you a preconceived narrative." Hilarious. Hannity fesses up to Stewart that they did alter reality by mixing film clips.
Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away | Media and Technology | AlterNet
US Press Falsely Claims Honduran Plurality for Coup | CommonDreams.org
Cautionary tale about msm and the value of fact-checking and verification. Everything we read - even in the most reputable presses - is not true.
Arianna Huffington: Bearing Witness 2.0: You Can't Spin 10,000 Tweets and Camera Phone Uploads
Excellent critique of a very nostalgic NYTimes journo who romanticizes more than he thinks, it seems. Raises great questions about eyewitness evidence and the evolution of historical primary sources: tweets, cameraphone vids, etc.
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Indeed, search engines, news aggregation, live-blogging, and "miracles of technology" such as Twitter, Facebook, and real-time video delivered via camera phones, played an indispensable part in allowing millions of people around the world to "bear witness" to what was happening in Iran.
The truth is, you don't have to "be there" to bear witness. And you can be there and fail to bear witness.
Obviously, there is tremendous value in being an eyewitness. But we have to always keep in mind that the conclusions drawn by eyewitnesses are greatly influenced by the eyes doing the witnessing.
Malcolm Muggeridge famously called this "the eyewitness fallacy" -- the tendency of people to see, in eyewitness accounts, what they want to see.
As a longtime writer and editor for the New York Times, Cohen should be particularly aware of the limitations of eyewitness accounts.
Media Matters' Karl Frish Breaks Down the Obama Photo Smear
Great object lesson in the need to doubt, and for journos or writers, of the need to verify. Another 21st c. skill for the changing media landscape.
Media Literacy Education Heuristic
Sessums shares a good media literacy rubric from a workshop he attended.
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Authors & Audiences
Authorship: Who made this?
Purpose: Why was it made? Who is the target audience?
Economics: Who paid for it?
Impact: Who benefits from this? Why does it matter to me?
Response: What kinds of actions might I take?
Messages & Meanings
Content: What is this about? What values and points of view are expressed? What is omitted?
Techniques: How was this constructed? What tools and techniques were used?
Interpretations: How might different people understand this message? What is my interpretation and what do I learn about myself from my reaction?
Representations & Realities
Representation: How does this message represent its subject?
Context: When was this made? Where or how was it shared?
Credibility: What are the sources of information, ideas or assertions? What criteria do I use to evaluate it?
Tony Burman: Shocking Racism at Palin Rally: Al Jazeera Report Starts Controversy
Interesting. AL JAZEERA ENGLISH CANNOT BE SEEN ON AMERICAN TV.
Why? (And if you answer, please also tell me if you have watched it - if yes, for how many hours, and what did you think; and if no, why not?)
David Frost and many other world-class journalists work for it.
Seems a clear-cut case of AMERICAN PREJUDICE, doesn't it?
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It's true -- the way that the U.S. is portrayed on Al Jazeera matters, and we take that responsibility very seriously. We followed up the initial piece by sending the reporter to get reaction from African-American Obama supporters. We gave the last word in this saga to the owner of a PR firm in Atlanta:
"They are not America. They don't reflect America, they don't represent the America that I live in and am a part of, and they don't reflect the majority of Americans."
We will have to wait until November 4 -- or the early hours of November 5 -- to know who Americans will choose to be their next President. But there are certain things we do know now.
After the dark and gloomy years of recent times, this race has electrified the world. It's a U.S. election that has more international resonance that perhaps any in our lifetime.
And all of these issues have been debated and explored in hundreds of hours of coverage on Al Jazeera English, an award-winning channel that is broadcast in more than 100 countries.
Except for most of the United States. Political and financial interests have pressured American cable companies from carrying Al Jazeera English.
In a country that regards itself as the world's leading democracy, that is regrettable because Al Jazeera's coverage has been fair, comprehensive and respectful of different points of view. And a window on the world.
As the world welcomes this new and exciting U.S. era, isn't it time for Americans -- when it comes to being able to see Al Jazeera - to actually be allowed to make their own judgment?
Conservatives fearful as election draws near | Politics | Reuters
This is an example of sloppy language. Many "Conservatives" have quit the Republican Party because the New Bush Republicans are no longer "Conservative" in the classic sense.
So this headline is misleading. It should read, "Bush Republicans fearful as election draws near" - because those are the "base" that McCain/Palin has allowed their former Bush campaign manager to cater to.
Read yesterday's post for several examples of REAL conservatives - philosophical ones, not brand name ones - who have jumped ship on McCain for _betraying_ Conservatism.
And read today's for conservative icon Colin Powell's similar move.
The Connected Classroom: Copyright Confusion
My take on the copyright / fairuse conversation at Temple Media Lab. See Joyce Valenza's blog as well http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334/post/1420024142.html\nInteresting conversations to start to have about Fair Use and what we can do as educators. Keep an eye on the media lab at Temple as this project develops http://www.mediaeducationlab.com/index.php?page=265
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