LIFELONG LEARNING
With so much misinformation and disinformation circulating through social media and on the internet at large, it is helpful to understand how to parse through the muck in search of the facts. As part of Lifelong Learning SMTXs current lecture series, which occurs at 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Mondays (the final lecture will be this upcoming Monday) at the San Marcos Public Library, Amber Hinsley, TXST Journalism and Mass Communication associate professor, taught how to determine the credibility of online information.
“It helps me to know, I need to take everything I read with a grain of salt,” Hinsley said. “There’s elements of truth in almost everything, especially in the news… All of it starts with some kernel of truth. It’s [all about] thinking... ‘What’s the other side of this? Or where does this information come from?’” Hinsley said to start by asking these questions, “What was the author’s purpose in doing this? Is it objective information? Is it complete information?
