Faith & Fake News

Description

Share if you love Jesus. Scroll past if you follow the devil. 
 
Most Christians have encountered phony posts on our feeds meant to rile us up. But not everything we see on social media is so obviously absurd. As online spaces increase in importance, we urgently need to consider how to love our neighbors on the internet—and this includes sharing the truth.  
 
Rachel I. Wightman has seen this problem firsthand as a librarian with over a decade of experience instructing students in information literacy. In Faith and Fake News, she shares her expertise with average Christians. This timely and essential guide explains the information landscape and its tendency toward thought bubbles, discusses techniques for fact-checking and evaluating sources, and offers suggestions on ways to engage with our neighbors online while bearing witness to Christ and the truth.

Table of Contents

Introduction 
Part 1: The Information Landscape 
          1. Algorithms and Filter Bubbles 
          2. The Wide-Open Information Landscape 
          3. A World of Fake News 
Part 2: Evaluating Information 
          4. Noticing Our Emotions 
          5. Learning to Evaluate 
Part 3: Deciding What to Do 
          6. Purposefully Seeking Out New Perspectives 
          7. Loving Our Neighbors 
Conclusion 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index