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The Net is Not Neutral: Teaching Hidden Biases in Everyday Internet Use
Teaching About Fake News: Lessons Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences (2021)
  • Liz Bellamy, William & Mary
  • Alyssa Archer, Radford University
Abstract
With the twenty-first century’s megaproliferation of information, artificial intelligence algorithms were touted by technology developers as a supposedly inherently neutral way to cut through the noise, providing internet users more of what they wanted and less of what they didn’t. In reality, for information-seeking and evaluating purposes, algorithms have provided yet another flawed heuristic with a major potential for baked-in, hidden bias. This chapter explores where algorithmic bias comes from, how it shows up in everything from entertainment sources to news feeds to even library resources, and how to teach about combating it on both an individual and systemic level.
Keywords
  • information literacy,
  • algorithmic bias,
  • source evaluation
Publication Date
Summer 2021
Editor
Candice Benjes-Small, Mary K. Oberlies, and Carol Wittig
Publisher
ACRL
Citation Information
Liz Bellamy and Alyssa Archer. "The Net is Not Neutral: Teaching Hidden Biases in Everyday Internet Use" Chicago, ILTeaching About Fake News: Lessons Plans for Different Disciplines and Audiences (2021) p. 1 - 12
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/liz-bellamy/1/
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