« Melanie Bavaria: Student, journalist, founder and editor-in-chief, Le Jeune Politique | Main | White House request: Google has no plans to rethink video status »

September 15, 2012

'Here there be monsters': Teaching j-students how to create hoaxes

The Morning News :: A professor teaches his students skepticism by instructing them to create hoaxes with the web as their laboratory.

There are no “successful” hoaxes; there are simply untested facts: a comedian’s death, a costume in a cooler, a boy on a perilous balloon ride. And untested facts flatter neither their creators nor their believers.

A report by Brendan Fitzgerald, www.themorningnews.org

HT: @webbmedia, via Jeff Jarvis here:

September 15, 2012 at 07:42 PM |

Comments

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

Posted by:  | 

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them.

Context Conference 2013
Global Editors Network

LNR REALTIME NEWS

Journalism & Media:

Mobile:

Digital & Social Media:

NEW: Digital Publishing:

NEW: Startups:

Backstage LNR:

LNR MAGAZINE

Impressum
Real Time Web News:
Steffen Konrath
Franz-Huber-Str. 33
83088 Kiefersfelden
Germany

Phone: +49 (0) 151 11646232

E-Mail: steffen.konrath@im-boot.de
Net: www.nextlevelofnews.com

Responsible editor:
Steffen Konrath, E-Mail: steffen.konrath@im-boot.de

Finanzamt Rosenheim
UST-ID: DE 175971729

In German:
Impressum
Haftungsausschluss
Datenschutz

Search