Leslie Stebbins is an independent researcher and the Director of Research4Ed. Her clients include Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Education, Tufts University, and the Gates Foundation.
She has more than thirty years of experience in higher education with a background in teaching, library and information science, UX, instructional design, and research.
She is dedicated to the pursuit of connecting people to reliable information through education and the design of better online spaces. She is the author of Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age and Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth, both of which have become mainstays in college and university media studies and information literacy courses.
Her new book, Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation provides solutions for repairing our existing social media platforms and building better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen community ties, and promote access to trustworthy information.
“We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us.”*
It’s time to shape some new tools.
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*John Culkin, describing the work of Marshall McLuhan.