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References: Media Literacy and Cognitive Bias

  1. Media literacy - Wikipedia - Comprehensive overview of media literacy as a discipline: its definition, history, core concepts (access, analysis, evaluation, creation), and its growing importance in an age of digital media and algorithmic information distribution.

  2. Cognitive bias - Wikipedia - Systematic catalog of cognitive biases including confirmation bias, availability heuristic, anchoring, in-group favoritism, and the Dunning-Kruger effect, with explanations of how each bias shapes perception, reasoning, and media consumption.

  3. Misinformation - Wikipedia - Detailed treatment of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation: their definitions, spread mechanisms, psychological factors that make people susceptible, and detection strategies central to this chapter.

  4. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Nobel Prize-winning psychologist's accessible explanation of System 1 (fast, intuitive) and System 2 (slow, deliberate) thinking; its analysis of cognitive biases is the foundation for the bias awareness content in this chapter.

  5. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread - Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall - Yale University Press - Academic but accessible analysis of how false beliefs originate and propagate through social networks; directly supports this chapter's content on misinformation detection and social media source evaluation.

  6. News Literacy Project — Checkology - News Literacy Project - Free interactive media literacy platform developed specifically for middle and high school students; its lessons on source evaluation, fact-checking, and recognizing misinformation align directly with CCSS informational reading standards.

  7. AllSides - AllSides Media - News aggregator that presents the same stories covered by left, center, and right-leaning outlets side by side, enabling students to analyze bias, compare coverage, and understand how perspective shapes reporting.

  8. Snopes - Snopes Media Group - The internet's oldest and most comprehensive fact-checking site; an essential model for how to evaluate viral claims, trace rumors to their origins, and apply the SIFT method taught in this chapter.

  9. Media Bias / Fact Check - Media Bias / Fact Check LLC - Independent resource that rates news sources for factual accuracy and political bias; supports the source credibility evaluation and differing viewpoints analysis skills in this chapter.

  10. FactCheck.org - Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania - Nonpartisan fact-checking site that evaluates claims made in public discourse, political advertising, and social media; a model for rigorous source evaluation and evidence-based claim assessment in this chapter.