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How to verify information from tweets: Check it out

How to verify information from tweets: Check it out | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

“Your job is to verify the information that looks useful. As with all the other information you gather, you can verify lots of different ways, and no single technique works for everything.”

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This is required reading for every journalist and every journalism student. 

Miquel Loriz's curator insight, March 16, 8:37 AM

Una buena guía con sugerencias para verificar los tweets

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Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy

Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

Although this article is off-topic for journalists + social media, it’s quite an important topic for journalists to consider. APIs are an important part of social media applications -- if you can write code, you can harness APIs for journalism uses.

 

“The usual definition of computer literacy stops at the UI: If a user knows how to make the machine work, he or she is computer-literate. But, of course, the deeper literacy of the programmer is far more powerful.”

 

(Published May 17, 2012.)

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