Assignment:
For this Module's (2) Getting Started Challenge I would like you to start looking at potential topics for your Final Media Ethics Essay assignment due at the end of the semester.
Here's what I'd like you to do:
1. Choose two (2) potential topics for your Final Essay Media Ethics.
Topics
Fact Checking
Fake News
2. List each topic with a brief paragraph description of how you would cover each topic
3. Find at least one academic or professional article to anchor the hypothesis of each potential topic, and build it into your description.
Articles will be uploaded with pdfs
One paragraph for each topic and please follow the instructions
Readings:
1. Trust and Distrust in Online Fact-Checking Services
BY PETTER BAE BRANDTZAEG AND ASBJORN FOLSTAD
2. Combating Fake News on Social Media with Source Ratings: The Effects of User and Expert Reputation Ratings
By ANTINO KIM, PATRICIA L. MORAVEC, AND ALAN R. DENNIS