Information about war; Children and Google; ChatGPT

Three articles, on varied information literacy topics:

Del Castillo, M.S. & Kelly, H.Y. (2024). ChatGPT is a Liar and other Lessons Learned from Information Literacy Instructors [Conference presentation]. ALA 2024 LibLearnX Conference, Baltimore, MD, United States. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1161&context=glworks (Slides plus what was posted to a padlet by delegates)

Lauren N. Girouard-Hallam, Judith H. Danovitch (2024). How does Google get its information?: Children's judgements about Google search. British Journal of Developmental Psychology [early online publication]. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12487 "American children ages 9 and 10 (n = 44; 18 boys and 26 girls) viewed factual questions directed towards Google or a person. After viewing each question, they reported their confidence in the informant's accuracy, the time it would take the informant to obtain the answer and how the informant would obtain the answer. Finally, they generated questions that the internet would be capable or incapable of answering. Children believed Google would be more accurate and faster than a person at answering questions. Children consistently generated appropriate questions that the internet would be good at answering, but they sometimes struggled to generate questions that the internet would not be good at answering. Implications for children's learning are discussed." 

Corbu, N., Udrea, G., Buturoiu, R., & Negrea-Busuioc, E. (2024). Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war. Convergence, [early online publication]. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565241247412 "In this context, we investigate what make people correctly recognize accurate information and detect misinformation about the war at the beginning of the conflict in Romania, a bordering country. By means of a national survey (N = 1006) conducted in April-May 2022, we looked for predictors of people’s capacity of navigating the information environment about the conflict. Data was gathered via an online panel conducted by Kantar as part of a cross-country project implemented in 19 countries. Findings show that people are relatively good at discerning between correct and misleading statements about the war. Prior negative attitudes about the Ukraine invasion, the level of concern about the war, not having a conspiracy mindset, self-perceived media literacy, and the extent to which people believe fact-checks to be effective in fighting misinformation are all predictors of the accuracy of misinformation detection of the respondents. These results offer insights into how ideologically based/motivated misinformation could be countered in a war crisis context, in a country bordering the conflict."
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