We live in an information-saturated environment and spend far too
much time searching, surfing, skimming, contributing, and
organizing the information in our lives. We spend too little time
immersing ourselves in reliable high quality information. We are
often so buried in information and strapped for time that we grab
information like it was fast food, without bothering to evaluate
its quality. Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an
Information Sleuth uses stories or "information adventures" to
illustrate the best approaches to searching for information and to
help us develop our aptitude for locating high quality resources in
a rapidly changing digital environment that is becoming proficient
at monopolizing our attention with useless or unreliable
information. This book is about taking charge of the search process
and not handing over the reins to search engines like Google, Bing,
or Yahoo to dictate what information we consume. Each chapter
focuses on a quest for different types of information while digging
deeper into the complexities of finding credible places to look for
information and ways to think about evaluating it. As the Internet
evolves and becomes more sophisticated, our strategies for finding
and evaluating information need to evolve as well. The stories in
this book range from investigating challenging research questions
to exploring health issues and everyday life questions like finding
a reliable restaurant or product review. These chapters go beyond
the simple and more mechanical checklist approach to evaluating
information, though these factors are also discussed.
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