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Meta-Web Information
looks at websites and validates them solely within the context of other
web pages.
Personal sites are
indicated in “users” or a “~” appears in the URL
To help students learn
that you can't trust everything you see on the Internet. This is
a fake article that actually was published in a legitimate journal by a
researcher who wanted to show that some journals are not that careful about
what they accept for publication. Since the article is there for people
to stumble across on the Internet, it makes a good example, and has the
advantage that the author provides plenty of explanation elsewhere on the
site about how this all transpired, what his motivations were, and how
it really was a hoax.
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html
Politicians get picked
on a lot through "unofficial" sites: http://www.gwbush.com
For a list of items
(some genuine, some fake), see the following. It can be used as an in-class
exercise, assigning one item to each student. Then everybody tell the class
how they tried to check on the validity of the information, and their conclusions
about whether they were hoaxes or not.
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/internet/eval.htm