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Nicole A. Cooke
Research Focus
● Cooke, N. A. (2018). Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era. Chicago, IL: ALA
Editions.
● Cooke, N. A. "Fake News or Free Speech: Is There a Right to be Misinformed?" ALA Annual Conference, American
Library Association, New Orleans, LA. (June 2018).
● “Post-Truth: Fake News and a New Era of Information Literacy.” Programming Librarian: A website of the American
Library Association Public Programs Office. February 2017. (invited webinar).
http://programminglibrarian.org/learn/post-truth-fake-news-and-new-era-information-literacy
● Speaker at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Public Interest Technology Summit on the topic of Misinformation,
Democracy & Civic Participation, Oct. 13, 2018.
● Library Quarterly
● The University of Chicago Press
○ Publishes over 80 scholarly journals
○ All peer-reviewed
○ Non-profit organization
What is the Intention of the Work?
● An essay which looks specifically at fake news and its related concepts, and how they impede upon how users interact
with and critically evaluate information. The pieces examines the ways in which knowledge of information behavior
and critical evaluation skills can “promote more savvy information consumption (Cooke, 2017).
● A brief examination of the different types of literacy skills
○ Critical Information Literacy
○ Digital Literacy
○ Metaliteracy
● The author argues for a metaliteracy approach to information consumption based upon the following:
○ “Self-referential framework containing emerging technologies and unification of multiple literacy types” (Mackey
and Jacobson, 2011, 2014; Jacobson and Mackey, 2013)
○ Participants play active role in knowledge creation by producing and sharing knowledge (eg social media)
○ Metaliteracy provides an holistic lens which examines both the consumer and context which drives information
production and consumption
Is it Fair and Balanced?
● Overall, yes the article is fair and balanced
○ Author’s perspective
○ Perspective versus bias
○ Author have published and presented extensively
● Disagreement with author
○ News sources influenced by “loss of access”
● Extensive Reference list