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Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies

How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

By: Donald A. Barclay

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Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies

How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

By: Donald A. Barclay

Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles? 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. • Learn 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. • Inoculate yourself against the logical fallacies that can mislead even the brightest among us. Donald A. Barclay, 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 trustworthy information.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538108909

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9781538108901

Serving Online Customers

Lessons for Libraries from the Business World

By: Donald A. Barclay

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Serving Online Customers

Lessons for Libraries from the Business World

By: Donald A. Barclay

Before the Web existed, anyone who wanted free information had to use the library. Now, a wealth of information on every possible service is accessible online. To compete in the digital age, libraries must provide outstanding customer service to their virtual users. In Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World, Donald A. Barclay carefully examines business literature to identify the best customer service practices of online companies and shows readers how to adapt these practices to the library environment. Chapter coverage includes these critical areas: Improving the Self-Service Experience Bringing Reference Service to the Online Customer Adding Libraries to the Distance Education Mix Designing Library Websites for Both Trust and Pleasure Implementing Recommendation Agents and Avatars into Online Services Linking Continuous Assessment to Online Service Improvement This book will help any library greatly enhance their online users’ experience and help bring new users to the library.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0810887339

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9780810887336

Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies

How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age

By: Donald A. Barclay

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Disinformation

The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era

By: Donald A. Barclay

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Disinformation

The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era

By: Donald A. Barclay

Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation:The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces–historical, psychological, economic, and culture–to create the post-truth culture, Disinformation will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond a culture in which facts are too easily dismissed, and develop a few highly practical skills for separating truth from lies. Disinformation explains: How human psychology—the very way our brains work—can leave us vulnerable to disinformation. How the early visions of what a global computer network would and should be unintentionally laid the groundwork for the current post-truth culture. The ways in which truth is twisted and misrepresented via propaganda and conspiracy theories. How new technology not only spreads disinformation but may also be changing the way we think. The ways in which the economics of information and the powerful influence of popular culture have contributed to the creation of the post-truth culture. Unlike the far-too-numerous one-sided, politically ideological treatments of the post-truth culture, Disinformation does not seek to point the finger of blame at any individuals or groups; instead, its focus is on how a number of disparate forces have influenced human behaviors during a time when all of humanity is struggling to better understand and more effectively control (for better or worse) challenging new technologies that are straining the limits of human intellectual and emotional capacity.

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1538144093

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9781538144091

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.

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1538130041

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9781538130049

The Final Solician

By: Donald D. Thompson

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The Final Solician

By: Donald D. Thompson

The Final Solician is book one in a ten part series called The Sol Chronicles. The first book chronicles man's escape from the harsh conditions of the planet called Mercury and their reestablishment on the planet that they named Venus. Led by Morta, Vika, and the Solician Zach, some of the humans escape from their harsh world to a newer and a better place. But a new world brings with it new problems that threaten the existence of man. Past lessons are long forgotten and the people must learn some basic survival skills all over again. The humans had forgotten what had brought them to this remote part of the universe in the first place and they had no idea why Mercury had been the perfect hiding place for so long. The idea of other intelligence never even occurred to them. This first chapter in the reeducation of human kind sets the tone for what is to come-again!

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iUniverse

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0595233112

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9780595233113

New Zealand

By: Darroch Donald

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New Zealand

By: Darroch Donald

This is a valuable companion and an entertaining guidebook to exotic New Zealand, written in a refreshing and amusing style, very well researched, accurate, and up to date.

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Footprint Handbooks

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1904777503

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9781904777502

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