2020 Poster Sessions
Students' Views & Access of the News

Intended Audience

Academic Libraries, Pre-Service Librarians & Library School Students, Community Engagement & Programming Departments
 

Poster Summary and Objectives

If professionals find themselves overwhelmed with news alerts and briefs or find that it is becoming more difficult due to more sophisticated technologies to distinguish real news from that which is not, how then do college students fare? How are college students grappling with the massive onslaught of information, specifically "fake news" and does their choice of social media platform increase or decrease such interactions? How are college students grappling with the massive onslaught of information, specifically "fake news" and does their choice of social media platform increase or decrease their interaction? This presentation aims to address these questions with data collected from students using a "Views on News" survey at a small, private, liberal Historically Black university in the southeast. 

Presenter

Clarissa West-White- Bethune Cookman University, Carl S. Swisher Library

  • Presented findings at Florida State University's DIRECTO's 2nd Annual Symposium on Diversity & Inclusion in Research & Teaching on September 27, 2019.