|Oxford Dictionaries recently announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the Year. Oxford defines the word as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”
2005, Stephen Colbert coined the term "truthiness". Wikipedia defines "truthiness" as "a quality characterizing a 'truth' that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively 'from the gut' or because it 'feels right' without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts."
Can you sort truth from truthiness? Will you be a champion of facts in a post-truth era?This guide is designed to help students, teachers, and parents develop the right mix of practical skills, a disposition towards seeking truth, and a healthy skeptical outlook necessary to navigate our increasingly complex and truthy media landscape.
Valenza, J. (2016, November 26). Truth, truthiness, triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world. Retrieved December 08, 2016, from http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2016/11/26/truth-truthiness-triangulation-and-the-librarian-way-a-news-literacy-toolkit-for-a-post-truth-world/
Definitions from The Stony Brook Center for News Literacy's Glossary: The Language of News Literacy http://drc.centerfornewsliteracy.org/glossary-language-news-literacy
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