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The Ohio Northern women's basketball team sits just outside the top 25 of the Week 3 D3hoops.com Top 25 Poll.

The Polar Bears (7-1 overall, 3-0 OAC) received 38 points and are listed first among teams in the "others receiving votes" category, putting them at No. 26 in the poll.

Northern received 26 points in last week's poll and was listed second among teams in the "others receiving votes" category.

Hope (Mich.) is the top-ranked team in the poll, receiving 615 points and 20 of 25 first-place votes.

The D3hoops.com Top 25 is voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, sports information directors and media members from across the country and is published weekly.

Student fellow Caleb Clayton from the ONU Institute for Civics and Public Policy (ICAPP) released the following "Critical Questions" article on DigitalCommons@ONU. Clayton poses and answers three questions, and provides further reading on the subject.

By Caleb Clayton

Introduction

The digital age and the birth of social media have changed how people receive news. New technologies make communicating events an instantaneous process. Generating information is far easier than ever, and the amount of information in the world has grown exponentially since the turn of the millennium. Information constantly generates, making it impossible to process and verify it as it appears.