READINGS
IRLS 622-791
Verifiable Information
Fall 2002
Don Fallis
There is no required text for this course. However, the following
books on evaluating information on the Internet are recommended:
Alexander, Janet E. and Marsha A. Tate. 1999. Web
Wisdom. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Alison Cooke. 1999. Neal-Schuman
Authoritative Guide to Evaluating Information on the Internet.
New York: Neal-Schuman.
Those articles below which do not have links are available through
electronic
reserves.
Inaccurate Information on the Internet
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Cerf, Vinton G. 1998. "Truth and the Internet." http://info.isoc.org/internet/conduct/truth.shtml.
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Ferrell, Keith. 1997. "Truth,
Lies, and the Internet." Cnet.
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Hecht, Brian. 1997. "Net
Loss." New Republic.
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Connell, Tschera H. and Jennifer E. Tipple. 1999. "Testing the Accuracy
of Information on the World Wide Web Using the AltaVista Search Engine."
Reference
& User Services Quarterly 38(4):360-368.
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Fowler, Brendon, Cara Franklin, and Robert Hyde. 2001. "Internet Securities
Fraud: Old Trick, New Medium." Duke Law and Technology Review. http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/ARTICLES/2001dltr0006.html.
Evaluating Internet Resources
Health Information on the Internet
Impicciatore, Piero, Chiara Pandolfini, Nicola Casella, and Maurizio Bonati.
1997. "Reliability of Health Information for the Public on the World Wide
Web: Systematic Survey of Advice on Managing Fever in Children at Home."
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/314/7098/1875.
Silberg, William M., George D. Lundberg, and Robert A. Musacchio. 1997.
"Assessing, Controlling, and Assuring the Quality of Medical Information
on the Internet." JAMA 277(15):1244-45.
Ambre, John, Roger Guard, Francis M. Perveiler, John Renner, and Helga
Rippen. 1997. "Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information
on the Internet." http://hitiweb.mitretek.org/docs/criteria.html.
Frické, Martin and Don Fallis. 2002. "Verifiable Health Information
on the Internet", Proceedings of AusWeb02 - 8th Australian World Wide
Web Conference. http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw02/papers/refereed/fallis/.
Social Epistemology
Good Evidence and Testimony
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Salmon, Merrilee H. 1995. Pp. 99-107 in Introduction to Logic and Critical
Thinking, 3rd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace & Company.
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Hume, David. 1748. "On
Miracles." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
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Goldman, Alvin. 1999. Pp. 103-125 in Knowledge in a Social World.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Signaling Theory
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Perry, James A. 1985. "The Dillion Hypothesis of Titular Colonicity: An
Empirical Test From the Ecological Sciences." Journal of the American
Society for Information Science 36(4):251-58.
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Perry, James A. 1986. "Titular Colonicity: Further Developments." Journal
of the American Society for Information Science 37(3):177-78.
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Spence, Michael. 1974. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of Market Signaling: Informational
Transfer in Hiring and Related Screening Processes. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
Counterfeiting
Misinformation and Disinformation
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Hernon, Peter. 1995. "Disinformation and Misinformation Through the Internet:
Findings of an Exploratory Study." Government Information Quarterly
12(2):133-39.
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Floridi, Luciano. 1996. "Brave.Net.World: the Internet As a Disinformation
Superhighway?" http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/disinfor.htm.
This document was last updated on August 28, 2002.