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Kids and Credibility: An Empirical Examination of Youth, Digital Media Use, and Information Credibility (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media
Andrew J. Flanagin
ASIN: B006CT0RHY
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 154

Findings from a survey of youthful Internet users that was designed to assess kids' beliefs about the credibility of online information.How well do children navigate the ocean of information that is available online? The enormous variety of Web-based resources represents both opportunities and challenges for Internet-savvy kids, offering extraordinary potential for learning and social connection but little guidance on assessing the reliability of online information. This book reports on the first large-scale survey to examine children's online information-seeking strategies and their beliefs about the credibility of that information. This Web-based survey of 2,747 children, ages 11 to 18 (and their parents), confirms children's heavy reliance on the Internet. They are concerned about the credibility of online information, but 89 percent believe that “some” to “a lot” of it is ...
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