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Darcy Gervasio

Reference Coordinator
SUNY Purchase College

I am the Coordinator of Reference Services at Purchase College Library. I am also an instruction librarian and the subject liaison for Anthropology, Gender Studies, Languages, and Sociology. My research interests include: slow assessment, virtual reference, critical information literacy.

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7 years 7 months

Resources Contributed

"Pin the Source on the Spectrum": Fake News is on a Continuum
This hands-on activity was piloted as part of a teach-in on fake news at Purchase College, SUNY. To convey the idea that “fake news” exists on a continuum, we did a pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey activity using a blank version of Vanessa Otero’s Media Bias chart. The chart is a useful tool for showing the nuances between nonfactual, biased, and inflammatory news sources. Participants are asked to research a news media organization and decide where to place it on the chart, then compare their…