Study: 80 percent of students can’t tell the difference between an ad and a news story
Nov23
Young doesn’t necessarily equal web savvy, at least according to a recent Stanford study. More than 80 percent of students were unable to tell an advertisement — labeled as sponsored content — from a news story. The study attempted to judge news literacy among students and examine how they might respond and evaluate to stories gathered from Facebook and Twitter feeds, photographs, reader comments on news sites, and blog posts. All told, researchers collected some 7,804 responses from students in 12 US states. The researchers wrote: Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be…
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