New Sources!
Why many men struggle to maintain deep male friendships later in life
Are Young Men Really Becoming More Sexist?
10 Reasons Why Today's Kids Are More Anxious Than Ever
No, the Pre-AI Era Was Not That Great
America is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
Does Educational Technology Help Students Learn?
America's Children Are Unwell: Are Schools Part of the Problem (The Atlantic is free if you log into COD's library account)
The Screen That Ate your Child's Education
Are School Issued Devices to Blame for Plummeting Reading Scores?
Psychologist explains why 90s kids think differently than Gen Z
The stupiding of the American mind
Why are math and reading scores dropping globally
The impact of digital distractions on classroom reading
The downfall of learning in a digital age
AI and Technology
No Regulation on AI Algorithms
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
Social media and political polarization
The Threat of AI in the Information Age
Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
Attack from within : how disinformation is sabotaging America
Supremacy : AI, ChatGPT, and the race that will change the world
The Anxious Generation
Four teens swap smartphones for flip phones
Ground-breaking research on screen time and children’s brains
How Smartphones Destroyed Gen Z
My Parting Prescription for America by Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy.
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and IsolationToo Much Screen Time or Too Much Guilt?
How Child Screen Time and Parental Screen Guilt Affect Parental Stress and Relationship Satisfaction
'Adolescence' has sparked a digital safety debate
Young Men in Crisis
INTERNATIONAL MEN & GENDER EQUALITY SURVEY
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
State of American Men: From Crisis and Confusion to Hope
The Manosphere Rewired: Understanding Masculinities Online and Pathways for Healthy Connection
'Adolescence' has sparked a digital safety debate
Love, Inc. : dating apps, the big white wedding, and chasing the happily neverafter
Incivility and Polarization
How Rude Behavior is Contagious
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
Social Media and Political Polarization
My Parting Prescription for America by Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy.
Love, Inc. : dating apps, the big white wedding, and chasing the happily neverafter
Attack from within : how disinformation is sabotaging America
Reading Skills, Bias, and Language - reading skills, bias, reacting vs. responding, primary vs. secondary research, details on our bibliography debriefs
Argument and Persuasion
Former Student Projects
Troubles of Transitioning (podcast)
Gender in the Workplace (website)
Why I Don’t Shop on Shein (video)
Toxic Masculinity and Gun Violence (infographic)
Gene Editing (infographic)
Organizing and Reading Research
10 Reading Tips (Google doc)
How to Read a Scholarly Journal (video)
Perspective, Positionality, and Bias
Post-Truth World
Questionnaires
Research Techniques and Strategies
Rhetorical Situations
We are living in a post-truth world.
What does that mean? A post-truth world is characterized by four elements (Crul, 2024):
dominance of emotion and belief
rise of echo chambers
erosion of institutional trust
blended narratives
Caused by social media, algorithmic bias, partisan media, and skepticism of experts, the impacts have been damaging. According to experts, we are living during the peak of modern internal political polarization, the erosion of democracy, and social decay. In our course, we have the benefit of learning from specialists in research and information literacy - the unsung heroes of our post-truth world - librarians. COD library, Jason Ertz, will help us sift through all the harmful information and junk to arrive at truth, knowledge, and expertise. Ideally, we will do our part to combat these serious issues our country and world are facing.