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Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This information literacy framework, including effective metaliteracy teaching and learning practices, ensures learners can successfully navigate the proliferation of fake news, questionable content, and outright denialism of facts in today's information morass. It examines the most recent Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives, four domains of metaliterate learning, and metaliteracy's relationship to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy...
2) Anonymity
Author
Series
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the roles and ramifications of anonymity. In the virtual realm, anonymity means that such bedrock values of librarianship as privacy, free speech, and intellectual freedom coexist uneasily with the proliferation of fake news, sexist and racist sentiments, and repugnant ideologies. The book covers apps and forums that promote anonymity as a central feature, and how anonymous content has become valuable fodder for news organizations...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she's presented news on the color of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on mountaintop glaciers, and signs of life on Venus. In her debut book she delivers a wholly original collection of personal essays that probe the places where science touches our lives most intimately. Expertly...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and...
5) Deep freeze
Author
Series
Revival volume 1
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff's life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water. There was no expectation of survival. None. Let alone waking up beneath blinding hospital lights. Struggling to move, or see, or even breathe. But the doctors assure him that everything is normal....
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Raising children in the digital age comes with incredible benefits, from limitless information to endless entertainment. But there is a dark side to the infinite content available online, and one of the most pernicious dangers is the easy availability of pornography. Whether you have a preschooler playing on a tablet or a teen scrolling through their phone, it's never too late to prepare your children for the day they will inevitably be confronted...
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