Fake News and Alternative Facts by Nicole A. Cooke

Author:Nicole A. Cooke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LAN025000 Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General
Publisher: American Library Association

The individual is a key part of the process, but the social context helps shape the experience. Social media environments are socially constructed spaces that rely on the contributions of individuals to create meaning. (Mackey and Jacobson 2014, 4)

Ultimately, the metaliterate learner is the active learner that bell hooks writes about (2010, 7). “The metaliterate learner is an active participant who is an effective communicator and translator of information. The metaliterate learner is an author of information in many forms” (Mackey and Jacobson 2014, 91). Metaliterate learners are critically engaged learners and are themselves content producers, who can contribute to discourse and can also successfully navigate the information landscape that is riddled with alternative facts, biases, spin, and counter knowledge. It is the metaliterate learner who may be the best equipped to confront and dispel fake news. Those in information professions, particularly the library profession, which has a long history of the practice and study of information literacy, are well positioned to work with the general public to improve critical thinking and information evaluation skills, and to promote the benefits of being metaliterate. Information professionals have a renewed opportunity and enhanced platform to assert their expertise and their willingness to co-create knowledge with their constituents.

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