Program
ALA Unit/Subunit: ACRL
Meeting Type: Program
Cost: Included with full conference registration.
Open/Closed: Open
Early findings are shared from our national survey this spring of U.S. high school and college
students and their news consumption practices. At a time when the American news media diet
is increasingly drawn from Facebook feeds and Google searches, our survey collected data about
how today’s students: (1) define what constitutes “news,” (2) interact with news when using
social media networks, and (3) determine the authority and credibility of news content when
authorship is often oblique and collaborative.
Alison Head
Executive Director
Project Information Literacy