Video description
Today, anyone can create a slick website or a compelling argument via email and find lots of impressionable viewers who will believe every word. In this video, Howard Rheingold offers solid guidelines to help you determine whether the information you come across on the Web is legitimate or whether it's just plain crap. A respected author and journalist who’s been involved with the Web and Internet since the beginning, Rheingold will show you how to detect urban legends, spam email, criminal hoaxes, and phishing exploits, and more.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Learning How to Use Search
- How to Tell People About Information on the Web
- No Guarantee that Web Information is Legitimate
- Urban Legends, Spam Email, Criminal Hoaxes and Phishing
- Debunk Hoaxes
- Using Wikipedia
- Healthcare Online
- Teaching and Learning About Critical Thinking
- Children on the Web
- Aggregation of Information
- Closing Thoughts
Product information
- Title: Crap Detection 101: How to Distinguish Good and Bad Information Online
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449303198
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