{"id":122,"date":"2017-04-10T02:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T02:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/srocereto\/?p=122"},"modified":"2017-04-11T02:12:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T02:12:33","slug":"watch-your-step-and-what-you-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/srocereto\/2017\/04\/10\/watch-your-step-and-what-you-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Your Step&#8230;and What You Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows how to find a reliable source, right? We were taught from a relatively young age which sources look true and factual. In fact, we can identify credible sources just from the URL: .org, .net, .edu, .gov, and so on. We can tell from the look of a website if it was a site run by a university\u00a0or a blog site run by a mother. Scanning the text, we should be able to pick out if the information was knowledgeable and written by someone who knows what they&#8217;re talking about. Simple enough?<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/720g7C1jz13wI\/giphy.gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"170\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Giphy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I thought too&#8230;until an exercise in class proved me wrong. Our professor gave us a list of websites that were paired based on the same topics. I breezed through the worksheet circling all of the obvious choices. It wasn&#8217;t until we went over the answers that I realized the reliable websites weren&#8217;t very obvious at all.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, one of the website pairings was about Martin Luther King Jr. You had a choice between Wikipedia and a &#8220;.org&#8221; website with a nationally published columnist. Based on first looks, the choice is clear, right? In fact, if you do a little extra research, you will learn that the &#8220;.org&#8221; website was written by an obscure author and was hosted by Stormfront. Who is Stormfront? I&#8217;ll tell you, drum roll please&#8230;<em>a white nationalist, white supremacist and neo-Nazi Internet forum that was the Web&#8217;s first major racial hate site.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/RBeddeaQ5Xo0E\/giphy.gif\" width=\"317\" height=\"211\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Giphy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, I was cringing too. Let me just say, this class exercise definitely opened up my eyes. Just because a website has a credible URL doesn&#8217;t mean that the site is automatically reliable. Especially if you need to pull quotes from a site, you want to make sure that the website is the correct speaker to be talking about a topic. Imagine writing about MLK Jr. only to realize you quoted from a white supremacist group. <em>Embarrassing<\/em>. Don&#8217;t let that be you. Do the extra work and dig a little deeper to find reliable sources. It&#8217;ll be worth it, believe me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows how to find a reliable source, right? We were taught from a relatively young age which sources look true and factual. 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