This course is designed to help you understand information disorder in the digital age, the application of advanced search techniques while gathering news on social media, contextualising and verifying digital information, and navigating through the challenges and responsibilities in such a digital information ecosystem. The course is divided into six units:
Unit 1 introduces the concepts of information disorder, as well as of misinformation, disinformation, and mal-information
Unit 2 explains the types of misinformation and disinformation, and how these contribute to the information disorder
Unit 3 explores the basics of newsgathering on social media and talks about ethical considerations and responsibilities while reporting on misinformation
Unit 4 demonstrates how to gather news on social media, using Advanced search techniques (Google advanced search). It will also introduce you to the concept of Boolean search operators and how to use them
Unit 5 demonstrates how to gather news on social media, using Advanced search techniques (Google alerts, Facebook graph search, Twitter advanced search, etc.)
Unit 6 demonstrates how to verify and contextualize online information. It will introduce to five pillars of verification and some digital tools and skills required for them
