Accessibility Statement
Your ability to use a wide range of sources is important in achieving good marks for your assignments. Below is a list of key websites in your subject area.
When searching for information online, it is important to carefully evaluate the source of the information you find.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites.
You can set Google Scholar to Findit@Brighton when you are off campus. Select Scholar Settings. Under Library links type in 'University of Brighton', check box in results and click Save.
For more on searching Google, see our playlist. LinkedIn Learning tutorialThe term 'filter bubble' was coined by Internet activist Eli Pariser in 2011. Pariser proposed that filter bubbles were formed when algorithms personalise our online experience, filtering out any information that does not fit with our existing views and opinions. This leaves us at risk of missing opposing perspectives and beliefs, which could lead to intellectual isolation. It is important to be aware of how algorithms use previous online activity and search history to personalise the information you see when searching online.
This video will give you a quick overview of how Filter Bubbles work. Watch Eli Pariser's 2011 TED Talk hereMisinformation is the inadvertent sharing of false, misleading or inaccurate information. Disinformation (or 'Fake News') is the deliberate creation and/or sharing of false or manipulated information with the intention to deceive or mislead audiences.
Fact checking websites like BBC News Reality Check, Channel 4 Fact Check and Full Fact will help you to verify the reliability of news stories.
This video will give you a quick overview of how to search like a fact checker.
Learn how to search like a Fact Checker here
