More traditional sources of

information are less relevant to

students than newer sources
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Topics to be developed

➢ Tradicional sources of information.

➢ Applied studies Tradidional Source

➢ New sources of information

➢ Applied studies new Source

➢ Problems in the use of new sources of information in students

➢ Conclusions
Tradicional sources of information.

 “Credibility is measured as the degree to

which politically-interested Web users
judge informationon the Internet to be
believable, fair, accurate, and in depth.”
(Thomas 1. Johnson and Barbara K. Kaye )
 Applied studies Tradidional Source
• By Thomas 1. Johnson and Barbara K. Kaye
1996.

• This study is based on an online surv ey.

• 308 responses to an online survey assessing

Web
•
• “Average of 13.2 hours per week on the Web;
three of those hours are spent seeking online
political information. Ov erall, threequarters
(75.5%) of the respondents browse the Web
between 10 and 20 hours per week on
average” (By Thomas 1. Johnson and Barbara
K. Kaye 1996.)

Table 1 credibility results from traditional media results taken By Thomas 1. Johnson and Barbara K.
Kaye 1996 http://www.aejmc.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Journalism-Mass-
Communication-Quarterly-1998-JohnsonKay-325-340.pdf
new sources of information

 Are not regularte

 Students often do not question online
information
 risk of spreading unreliable information,
fake news or fake science.
 Easily available to students.

Photo of cookies on the plate taken from JOSÉ GARCÍ A

NI ETO October 2019 ART. How to enable and disable
cookies in Google Chrome for Android
Applied studies new Source

• Ofcom is the regulator for the

communications services that we
use and rely on each day in UK
• 37 % social media trust the
information.
• TV 75 % most used plataform

Infographic results consumption of news on OFCOM social networks July

24, 2019 https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about -ofcom/latest/features-and-
news/half-of-people-get-news-from-social-media
 Problems in the use of new
sources of information in students
 students struggle to critically assess information from the
Internet and are often influenced by unreliable sources
(April 14, 2020 Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz)
 students prefer online information than traditional information
 Critical Online Reasoning Assessment (CORA).
 The study shows that most of the students fail to correctly
evaluate the online sources in the given time
 The results are striking: almost all test participants had difficulties
solving the tasks. On a scale of 0 to 2 points per task, the students
scored only 0.75 points on average, with the results ranging from
0.50 to 1.38 points. "The majority of the students did not use any
scientific sources at all," said Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, (April 14,
2020 Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz)
fake news image taken from Blog 20 September,
2021tips, fake news, guide, niubox, Technology
https://niubox.legal/guia-para-detectar-y-conocer-
todo-sobre-las-fake-news/
Conclusions

 Fast and extensive information

 Regulationof disseminated
information
 Students must acquire skills to
evaluate the sources of information
with criteria

fake news child taken from BBC article: 6 keys

to understand (and combat) "fake news“
December 31, 2018
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-
46406062
References

➢ By Thomas 1. Johnson and Barbara K. Kaye CRUISING Is BELIEVING?: COMPARING INTERNET AND
TRADITIONAL SOURCES ON MEDIA CREDIBILITY MEASUR 1998 http://www.aejmc.org/home/wp-
content/uploads/2012/09/Journalism-Mass-Communication-Quarterly-1998-JohnsonKay-325-340.pdf
 OFCOM Half of people now get their news from social media 24 July 2019
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/half-of-people-get-news-from-
social-media
 Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Students often do not question online information April 14,
2020 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200414095727.htm
 Satoshi Kitamura The Relationship Between Use of the Internet and Traditional Information Sources: An
Empirical Study in Japan April-June 2013
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244013489690