Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth

By Leslie F. Stebbins

Book Overview

Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth uses stories or "information adventures" to illustrate the best approaches to searching for information and to help us develop our aptitude for locating high quality resources in a rapidly changing digital environment that is becoming proficient at monopolizing our attention with useless or unreliable information. This book is about taking charge of the search process and not handing over the reins to search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo to dictate what information we consume.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442253924
• ISBN13: 9781442253926
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"