DGST 101:
Intro to Digital Studies

Studying digital culture, practicing digital creativity, and using digital methodologies.

You've had some practice in tracing images and stories upstream to their sources, and you should be starting to apply that same skill to the claims you're investigating this week. But what happens when you've tracked a claim back to its earliest origin? Or how do you evaluate a claim from a web source that doesn't really cite other sources or lead you anywhere else? The next skill in our fact-checking toolkit is "Reading Laterally."