by Howard Rheingold | Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. | Release Date: January 2011 | ISBN: 9781449303198

Today, anyone can create a slick website or a compelling argument via email and find lots of impressionable viewers who will believe every word. In this video, Howard Rheingold offers solid guidelines to help you determine whether the information you come across on the Web is legitimate or whether it's just plain crap. A respected author and journalist who's been involved with the Web and Internet since the beginning, Rheingold will show you how to detect urban legends, spam email, criminal hoaxes, and phishing exploits, and more.

1. Introduction 00:04:15
2. Learning How to Use Search 00:16:12
3. How to Tell People About Information on the Web 00:12:49
4. No Guarantee that Web Information is Legitimate 00:09:07
5. Urban Legends, Spam Email, Criminal Hoaxes and Phishing 00:14:12
6. Debunk Hoaxes 00:08:20
7. Using Wikipedia 00:09:28
8. Healthcare Online 00:08:17
9. Teaching and Learning About Critical Thinking 00:06:42
10. Children on the Web 00:06:00
11. Aggregation of Information 00:06:01
12. Closing Thoughts 00:01:27