Archive for September 11th, 2008
Information is Power – Even When it’s Wrong
Here is a guest post from Amy Fry, a San Diego-based librarian with whom I’ve done some research on aggregated databases. She was struck by the way a sloppy mistake in handling information led to a plunge in a company’s stock prices – and what the implications might be for information literacy. If you’re low [...]
Posted: 11 September, 2008 in Information Ethics, Information Literacy.
Tags: aggregators, business sources, Google News, journalism
Comments: 10