Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Barclay takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.

Author: Donald A. Barclay
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 01/30/2020
Pages: 244
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781538136843
ISBN10: 1538136848
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Social Science | Media Studies

About the Author
Donald A. Barclay has been a professional academic librarian since 1990, having formerly held positions at New Mexico State University, the University of Houston, and the Houston Academy of Medicine--Texas Medical Center Library. He is currently the Deputy University Librarian at the University of California, Merced, where he has been employed since 2002. As a librarian, he has decades of experience in teaching students how to become more information literate. Besides working as a librarian, he was employed for four years as a special lecturer in composition and literature at Boise State University and also worked for ten years as a seasonal wildland fire fighter for the United States Forest Service.