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AcademySources and Provenance

Photos, Video, and Data

This lesson takes 10 minutes.

Objectives

  • Date an image before attaching it to an event
  • Check what a chart counts

Videos

Evaluating Photos & Videos. Crash Course · Navigating Digital Information #7. Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Data & Infographics. Crash Course · Navigating Digital Information #8. Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Lesson

Recycled media is a timeline error: establish the earliest verified appearance of an image before connecting it to anything new. A screenshot is a copy of a claimed record, not the record.

Some chart disagreements are measurement disagreements. Ask whether the world changed or only the way it is counted. Check the instrument before the world.

Faculty

Crash Course

Complexly

Media literacy; navigating digital information

Video series used as supporting material for Academy lessons.

thecrashcourse.com (opens in a new tab)

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