NEWSpiracy Tutor Handbook EN

https://newspiracy.eu The project "NEWSpiracy" is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The content of NEWSpiracy is the sole responsibility of the project partners and neither the European Commission nor the Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE) is responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Project Number: 2022-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000089608 Information sources Credibility is one of the most important features when it comes to news (Yang et al., 2021), readers will give great importance to the fact that a piece of news can be reliable or not. Here is where information sources will have a major role in order to convince readers that the news they are interacting with is in fact credible and reliable. In this digital era, spreading information has become and will continue being easily spread. The issue with the rapid expansion at which news can travel around the globe is that some of this information might be fake news. People might ask themselves how to avoid spreading fake news or how to build up credibility among their readers. Ismagilova et al. (2020) mentioned that there are three important aspects when it comes to building credibility: expertise, trustworthiness, and homophily . These characteristics apply to other moments of life: social media, purchases, plans and trips, among others. There is a vast array of potential models for information sources that are only partially reliable. Haenni et al. (2006) explore 6 of these models to analyse how reliability works when it comes to information sources. It is crucial to differentiate the actual conduct of an information source from our understanding or perception of it (Haenini et al., 2006). Models can either be complete or incomplete, it will all depend if we can know all the variables and their configurations, otherwise the model is incomplete. Analysing information sources can be a hard task, the amount of theorems that can be used to see if a source is reliable or not can become a titanic idea. To conclude, when evaluating the reliability of information sources, it is crucial to take into account any prior knowledge that may exist. This prior knowledge may stem from previous reports from partially reliable sources or from personal opinions or prejudices. By being aware of this factor and considering it in our evaluation process, we can more accurately assess the credibility of the information presented to us (Haenini et al., 2006).