All That's Not Fit to Print: Fake News and the Call to Action for Librarians and Information Professionals - Paperback

by Amy Affelt (Author)

Fake news may have reached new notoriety since the 2016 US election, but it has been around a long time. In All That's Not Fit to Print, Amy Affelt offers tools and techniques for spotting fake news and discusses best practices for finding high quality sources, information, and data.

Author Biography

Amy Affelt has spent her entire career in economic consulting, and frequently writes and speaks on fake news, Big Data, Internet of Things, adding value to information, and evaluating information integrity and quality. She is the author of The Accidental Data Scientist: Big Data Applications and Opportunities for Librarians and Information Professionals (Information Today, 2015), and is the Big Data columnist for EContent Magazine. She is a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association.