Digital Literacy Continued

This is a continuation of our previous post regarding digital information literacy. Websites and news organizations make money from advertising when we view their content. There are three important distinctions for you to know:

1. Native Advertising - advertising that tries to sell or promote a product disguised as a news story
2. Traditional Advertising - most common advertising that sells or promotes a product 
3. News story - real content containing factual information about a subject and independent of bias and should answer, who, what, when and how

For this post take a look at the following two website banners and answer this question:

Which are these an example of: native advertising, traditional advertising or a news story and why? 

Digital Literacy

A few posts ago we discussed the difference between fake and real news. Since it was post election most of the focus was on Facebook and how fake news stories may have influenced people's votes. A recent Stamford study went further by including the internet as a whole and found troubling results.

Please read: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_au/read/we-need-to-teach-kids-how-to-be-skeptical-of-the-internet There will be a 6 question quiz on the article on Wednesday, 1/11/17.

You are bombarded by information all day long. Some from legitimate sources and others with dubious intentions. How do we determine fact from fiction? One way is to go to the source.

So let's begin. Visit this site and put your detective hat on: https://www.minimumwage.com/

For our post:

1. Is this a legitimate news source? Why? What are you basing your decision of legitimacy on? 
2. What organization is supporting this website? Who are they? Does that change your opinion of the information supported by the website? 

Do not copy someone else's response. Do your own research.