READINGS

IRLS 622-791
Verifiable Information
Fall 2002
Don Fallis

Alexander, Janet E. and Marsha A. Tate. 1999. Web Wisdom. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Alison Cooke. 1999. Neal-Schuman Authoritative Guide to Evaluating Information on the Internet. New York: Neal-Schuman.

• Cerf, Vinton G. 1998. "Truth and the Internet." http://info.isoc.org/internet/conduct/truth.shtml.
• Ferrell, Keith. 1997. "Truth, Lies, and the Internet." Cnet.
• Hecht, Brian. 1997. "Net Loss." New Republic.
• Connell, Tschera H. and Jennifer E. Tipple. 1999. "Testing the Accuracy of Information on the World Wide Web Using the AltaVista Search Engine." Reference & User Services Quarterly 38(4):360-368.
• Fowler, Brendon, Cara Franklin, and Robert Hyde. 2001. "Internet Securities Fraud: Old Trick, New Medium." Duke Law and Technology Review. http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/dltr/ARTICLES/2001dltr0006.html.

• Fitzgerald, Mary A. 1997. "Misinformation on the Internet: Applying Evaluation Skills to Online Information." Emergency Librarian 24(3):9-14.
• University of Arizona Library. 1999. "Evaluating Information Found on the Web." http://www.library.arizona.edu/rio/web7.html.
• Alexander, Janet E. and Marsha A. Tate. 2001. "Evaluating Internet Resources." http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm.
• Wilkinson, Gene L., Lisa T. Bennett, and Kevin M. Oliver. 1997. "Evaluating the Quality of Internet Information Sources." http://www.edtech.vt.edu/edtech/kmoliver/webeval/webeval.html.
• Place, Emma, Debra Hiom, and Marianne Peereboom. 1999. "Internet Detective." http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html.

Impicciatore, Piero, Chiara Pandolfini, Nicola Casella, and Maurizio Bonati. 1997. "Reliability of Health Information for the Public on the World Wide Web: Systematic Survey of Advice on Managing Fever in Children at Home." http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/314/7098/1875.

Silberg, William M., George D. Lundberg, and Robert A. Musacchio. 1997. "Assessing, Controlling, and Assuring the Quality of Medical Information on the Internet." JAMA 277(15):1244-45.

Ambre, John, Roger Guard, Francis M. Perveiler, John Renner, and Helga Rippen. 1997. "Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet." http://hitiweb.mitretek.org/docs/criteria.html.

Frické, Martin and Don Fallis. 2002. "Verifiable Health Information on the Internet", Proceedings of AusWeb02 - 8th Australian World Wide Web Conference. http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw02/papers/refereed/fallis/.

• Goldman, Alvin. 1999. Pp. 3-7 and pp. 87-100 in Knowledge in a Social World. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Mill, John S. 1859. "Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion." On Liberty.
• Wachbroit, Robert. 2000. "Reliance and Reliability: The Problem of Information on the Internet. Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy 20(4):9-15. http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports/vol20fall00/Fall2000.pdf.

• Salmon, Merrilee H. 1995. Pp. 99-107 in Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, 3rd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace & Company.
• Hume, David. 1748. "On Miracles." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
• Goldman, Alvin. 1999. Pp. 103-125 in Knowledge in a Social World. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Perry, James A. 1985. "The Dillion Hypothesis of Titular Colonicity: An Empirical Test From the Ecological Sciences." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 36(4):251-58.
• Perry, James A. 1986. "Titular Colonicity: Further Developments." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 37(3):177-78.
• Spence, Michael. 1974. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of Market Signaling: Informational Transfer in Hiring and Related Screening Processes. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

• Piper, Paul S. 2000. "Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation." Searcher. http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/piper.htm.
• NOVA. 1996. Secrets of Making Money #2314 produced by WGBH. Boston. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/moolah/.
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 2002. "Anti-counterfeiting: Security features." http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/7/35.
• Bureau of Engraving and Printing. 2002. "Your New Currency: The New $100 Note." http://www.bep.treas.gov/section.cfm/4/32/322.

• Hernon, Peter. 1995. "Disinformation and Misinformation Through the Internet: Findings of an Exploratory Study." Government Information Quarterly 12(2):133-39.
• Floridi, Luciano. 1996. "Brave.Net.World: the Internet As a Disinformation Superhighway?" http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/disinfor.htm.