''Fake News, Propaganda and Plain Old Lies'' will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most trustworthy information in order to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional and civic lives.
The book explains how to identify the alarm bells that signal untrustworthy information, understand how to tell when statistics can be trusted and when they are being used to deceive as well as inoculate yourself against the logical fallacies that can mislead even the brightest among us.
Fake News, Propaganda and Plain Old Lies
Barclay offers basic methods for evaluating information such as determining whether the source for a news story is identified and whether a so called ''expert'' has the relevant credentials to provide an informed opinion.
The work is targeting anyone who cares about the trustworthiness of information they encounter its scope will make it most useful as part of college coursework .
The book will provide value to high school teachers, undergraduate teachers and students, librarians, and parents who want to guide young people and the general public to being information literate.
Barclay is a career librarian who has spent decades teaching university students to become information literate scholars and citizens takes an objective non-partisan approach to the complex and nuanced topic of sorting deceptive information from accurate information.
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