What do first-year students find reliable in online sources? (2021)
It has become almost rote to say that now, more than ever, students need to understand how to navigate web content to find verifiable and reliable information sources. While the data-collection portion of this study took place in the aftermath of the 2016 American presidential election, with students and the public increasingly confused about #fakenews and what media sources to trust to disseminate information (Rainie & Anderson, 2017), structural revisions of this article took place during the COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing racial protests in the United States.