HBC209 Group – Based Assignment SUSS J anuary 2025 : Media Literacy in the Age of Fake News, Singapore

GROUP-BASED ASSIGNMENT (GBA01)

This assignment is worth 40% of the final mark for HBC209 Media Literacy in the Age of Fake News.
The cut-off date for this assignment is Sunday, 30 March 2025, 11.55pm.
This is a group-based assignment. You will be assigned to a group of maximum 4 members from your tutorial group. The group leader is randomly appointed from among the group members. The responsibility of the group leader is to upload the written essay and the group video presentation; there are no other responsibilities assigned to this role. Each participating member is required to submit the GBA declaration form to your respective Canvas tutorial group.
Note to Students:
You are to include the following particulars in your submission: Course Code, Title of the GBA (if applicable), SUSS PI No., Your Name, and Submission Date.
Failure to submit your GBA via Canvas TurnItIn will result in an automatic
withdrawal from the module.
(Full marks: 100)
The practice of pre-bunking is an option that public authorities and agencies take to deal with the scourge of fake news.
In your assigned groups, consider the following questions:
(a) Explain the concept and rationale behind pre-bunking, including how it complements efforts at debunking.
(b) Discuss two examples of pre-bunking efforts, mounted internationally or in
Singapore, and whether they have been successful, based on a specified criteria.
(c) Present a fresh pre-bunking proposal addressing likely falsehoods on public housing issues and targeted at younger flat applicants, which could be taken up by Singapore’s

Housing & Development Board.

Student’s Notes
The GBA will be marked holistically. Please take note of the following:
• There are three items to submit via Canvas:
o the GBA report in Word Document,
o a video presentation in mp4 format, and
o the completed GBA declaration form in Word Document.
• For the GBA report,
o This assignment requires you to work in your assigned group on a written
submission that examines the concept of pre-bunking in tackling online
falsehoods.
o Groups are expected to demonstrate a good understanding of the topic. In
considering examples of pre-bunking, groups should propose some criteria to
assess how successful the cited pre-bunking efforts have been.
o Groups should then conclude by presenting a fresh proposal for a pre-bunking effort to be considered by HDB, addressing expected public housing concerns that could be subject to misinformation or disinformation.
o Group members should work out an internal agreement and consensus on a
broadly equitable distribution of work.
o Groups should provide sufficient examples to illustrate or substantiate points being advanced, and with proper references and citations.
o Provide the word count, in-text citations, as well as a list of reference at the
end of the submission. There should be a minimum of three academic
references. The word limit for the GBA is 2,000 words, excluding the
bibliography.
• For the video presentation,
o Each member of the group must participate and be featured in a segment of the presentation. The group should decide internally which part of the presentation each member is responsible for. Cameras must be switched on for the presentation.
o Do not use the text-to-speech function.
o The overall presentation must not exceed 10 slides. This excludes the title
slide and slides for references and endnotes.
o The total duration of the recorded video presentation should not exceed 10
minutes.
• For the GBA declaration form,
o It is available for download from Canvas via the L01 course site.
o Each participating member is required to submit the GBA declaration form to your respective Canvas tutorial group.
o Each member should do an honest peer and self-evaluation based on the
attributes listed in the form.

                                      Mark Allocation At A Glance

Penalties
For the GBA report,
• Up to 10% of the grade may be deducted for poor language proficiency or incoherent structure.
• Up to 5% of your final grade may be deducted for exceeding the word limit.
For the video presentation,
• 2 marks will be deducted if the 10-slide limit is exceeded.
• 3 marks will be deducted from any group exceeding the 10-minute duration limit.
Resources for Writing
• Purdue Online Writing Lab (Purdue OWL)
• APA Guide
• Academic Integrity

Plagiarism & Generative AI

• Copying a citation description from the original author or someone else (without rendering it in quotation marks, or rewriting it) is considered plagiarism. Attribute all sources properly and consistently, including any AI-generated text (see example below).
Example of a table detailing the name of the AI tool used, the approach to using the tool (e.g., what prompts were used), the full output provided by the tool, and which part of the output was adapted for the assignment.
• Answers that merely regurgitate or reproduce information from any sources, including generative AI tools, will be significantly marked down. Students should refer to
relevant portions of the Student Handbook. If there is ample reason to believe the work is not entirely the student’s own, a viva voce may be held to determine authorship.

Submission

It is strongly recommended that you make an early submission to check the originality report and, if necessary, make amendments to your document for resubmission. Note that the Turnitin report is usually generated immediately after the first submission, however, subsequent reports may take up to one day to generate. Do note that Turnitin will not accept any further submissions AFTER the cut-off time. There is a 12-hour grace period after the cut-off time, which is not an extended deadline but solely meant for solving any technical problems that you may encounter while attempting to make a submission before the cut-off time. Please email Canvas Support immediately (with relevant screenshots and your GBA attached) and follow up with Canvas Support first thing in the morning to ensure that the problem is resolved before the grace period is over.
One late submission is allowed only if no prior submissions were made before the cut-off time. Do note that the Canvas system will automatically deduct penalty marks for every day that your assignment is late. With this automatic deduction, there will be no need to request for extensions from your tutor because your tutor does not have the mandate to over-ride the Canvas system settings. You will need to form your own judgement as to how many marks you are willing to forego for each extra day that you gain to work on your assignment.
Take care to ensure that you upload the correct GBA document to the correct folder of the correct course. Requests to transfer incorrectly uploaded documents to the correct folder will require an official appeal (and an administrative fee).
Backup your assignment at all times. Once you have uploaded your assignment (in Word document format only), retain the Turnitin digital receipt as evidence of a successful submission. View your submission to ensure that the entire document has been uploaded successfully.

Plagiarism and Collusion

The assignment is to be completed on your own. Do not share your notes, draft or final GBA with anyone before the marked GBAs are returned to you.

Avoid plagiarism by giving yourself sufficient time to research and understand the material so that you can write up your assignment in your own words. Quotations should be used sparingly. Simply citing the source of ‘copied’ chunks of text does not excuse it from plagiarism. Do ensure that any paraphrasing is done appropriately, even if you use text from your own work that you have submitted as part of another assignment for the same or another course.
The University takes a very serious view of plagiarism (passing off someone else’s ideas as your own, or recycling of contents from your own earlier marked assignment from the same course or another course) and collusion (submitting an assignment which is the same or very similar to another student’s). Both are very serious academic offences. Please refer to the Student Handbook on the penalties of plagiarism or collusion. You are strongly advised to submit your assignment early, check the plagiarism report yourself, and if needed revise and resubmit your assignment before the submission deadline.