You are invited to take a look at the end-of-course Digital Wall (via MS Sway) with some fascinating cautionary tales told and visualized by graduate students in Winter 2022 FIMS9328 seminar (compiled and edited by Victoria L. Rubin). https://sway.office.com/BysB64DNNy15Sd9q
ABOUT OUR INTERACTIVE DIGITAL WALL
This Digital Wall is the end-of-course interactive online presentation consisting of 17 Case Studies for a graduate class (FIMS9328), taught by Prof. Rubin (in the Winter 2023 term) at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) at Western University in London, ON, CANADA.
Each graduate student worked hard on condensing key ideas on how to see through propaganda, whether commercial or political, and how to avoid being duped, as an individual. These simple visuals are meant to be printed as bookmarks or posted online. Check them out!
You could reuse them, with attribution of course, or maybe seek their creator’s permission! In the Sway Pres, you will find their names, paper titles, abstracts, and associated iconographics, all based on their cumulative course papers. Visit it at any time and on any device, including smartphones. Click the button above or the link below: https://sway.office.com/BysB64DNNy15Sd9q
Please feel free to re-share the link or talk to this course graduates about their ideas, visuals, and project content. With appropriate attributions, these ideas and visuals could be re-used for creating educational campaigns, informational websites, library bookmarks, or other similar initiatives to prevent being mis- or dis-informed as counteraction measures to the infodemic. More background information and definitions are available on the site.
HOW TO CITE
If you plan to adopt, adapt, or re-use these ideas, please cite these works as part of this Digital Wall. Suggested citation format: Graduate Student’s Last Name, First Name. (24 April, 2023). Title. In Rubin, Victoria L. (Ed.) “Cautionary Tales of Disinformation: “Eyes Wide Open!” Available at https://sway.office.com/BysB64DNNy15Sd9q
If you have further questions, please contact individual students or the Prof to facilitate contact: https://victoriarubin.fims.uwo.ca/
FURTHER READINGS
Rubin’s (2022) “Misinformation and Disinformation: Detecting Fakes with the Eye and AI” book offers a lot of conceptual details and summarizes research about mis- and disinformation for information professionals and knowledge workers. Several chapters of this book were used in lieu of a textbook on misinformation and disinformation in this interdisciplinary Graduate Class at FIMS, Western. The textbook precedes these Case Studies and none of them appear in the textbook publication, so they are complementary to the book’s chapters and are follow-up examples of how information has been manipulated in deceptive ways in real life case scenarios.