Searching Out Loud: Giving Voice to Independent Investigations

Searching Out Loud is a digital information literacy text book for independent investigators, researchers, consultants, educators, and any lifelong learner whose curiosity is matched only by their rejection of unquestioning assumptions.

Searching Out Loud is a bolt of inspiration for tireless and independently-inclined researchers who want to move beyond literacy to action.

First the book instructs readers on how to locate, evaluate, and use online information in their evidence-based investigations. Then the reader is invited to apply their source knowledge and fact-finding to the perspective-taking needed to understand how that same information is created, shaped, and presented by the web-based tools and resources we’re routinely asked to believe at face value.

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