Research Guides: DigiPo News Analysis Project: Home

Introduction

You will be analyzing a claim, found on a traditional or non-traditional news source to determine if it is true, false, or in between. Your analysis will be published on the digipo.io wiki. The assignment asks you to:

Summarize the evidence for and against the claim
Report on a combination of expert consensus and your own research
Present majority and significant minority views on the subject

Once you have posted on the wiki, the analysis will be public to students throughout the United States. At that time, it can be revised by other students. This will keep the information about the claim up-to-date and enable people to provide additional majority and significant minority views. The end result may strengthen or change the results of the analysis of the claim.

You will be need to complete the following steps:

Identify a claim
Track the claim to its origin
Analyze the reliability of the original source
Document appearances of the claim in both traditional and social media
Analyze the truth of the claim
Assign the claim a status

Look at the following examples to see how to see what is expected as a final product:

Out of Focus : Are half of UK kids so emotionally troubled they can't focus at school?
North Carolina Voter Suppression : Did the Republican Party send out a press release
bragging about their voter suppression success?
Return to the Bubble? Are we back to the inflated home values that preceded (and
contributed to) the Great Recession?
Black Friday Deaths, 2016 : Has consumerism in the U.S. got us all shooting one
another?
Common Core Prediction : Can you really predict Common Core test results using just
three demographic variables?
Trump Mumbai Ad : Is a well-circulated photo of a Trump billboard overlooking poverty
authentic?
Pole Position : Is ice rapidly increasing at both poles, disproving global warming theories?
Three Million Illegal Votes : Did three million undocumented immigrants vote for Clinton in
the recent election?