Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/York University/Fake News, Fact-Finding, and the Future of Journalism (Fall)
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- Course name
- Fake News, Fact-Finding, and the Future of Journalism
- Institution
- York University
- Instructor
- Jonathan Obar
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Communication Studies
- Course dates
- 2019-09-05 00:00:00 UTC – 2020-01-02 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 150
What is fake news? How does it spread? How do we distinguish fact from fake? Are social media to blame? This class addresses the fake news challenge and teaches students to be informed consumers of information. This means developing information literacy, and a stronger understanding of the platforms and politics involved in the communication of fake news and facts.
Timeline
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 7 November 2019
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 14 November 2019
- In class - Citation Hunt
Assignment Instructions
Please review the assignment instructions posted to Moodle about the citation hunt exercise. The instructions describe using the citation hunt tool, adding a citation to a sentence in your Wikipedia sandbox, and completing the 500-750 analysis in a Word document.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 21 November 2019
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 28 November 2019
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Thursday, 5 December 2019
- In class - Assignment Due
The Wikipedia assignment is due on November 28, 2019.