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IDevice Icon Video: Information Cycle
“Information Cycle” is a short video that shows you how the Information Cycle works with an event in the news. Click on the image below to watch the video, produced by University of Tennessee Libraries, then answer the questions below.

 

 


iDevice icon Questions about the video...
Based on the video, answer the following questions.

1. What are some information sources that produce information as event occurs or soon after? Fill in the blank for at least two such sources.

2. When the academics (professors) began to write about Hurricane Katrina, what types of information resources did they produce?

3. Indicate with a T (true) or F (false) whether the following statements are true or false.

  1. It took longer for the academic publications to be released because they were doing in-depth research about the events and related issues.
  2. The publishing process for newspapers takes a longer time than for journal articles and books.

4. From the cycle of information portrayed, based on a news story, you might make some generalizations about information sources. What type of information sources come out even later than journal articles and books?

  

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