Unit One ~ Media Literacy ~ Government

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Brian Grismore
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Ideology How we as individuals understand the world in which we live. This understanding involves an interaction between our individual psychologies and the social structures that surround us.
Conservative is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and preserve traditional social institutions and practices.
Liberal political doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics.
Consumers The audience for whom a commercial media text is constructed and who responds to the text with commercial activity.
Propaganda Any media text whose primary purpose is to openly persuade an audience of the validity of a particular point of view.
Bias messaging involving the slanting or altering of information to make a political position or political candidate seem more attractive.
Framing refers to how the media focuses attention on certain events and then places them within a field of meaning.
Priming refers to how media continues to supply the audience with more information related to their chosen agenda.
Agenda Setting refers to how media may not exactly tell you what to think, but they may tell you what to think about.
Narrative How the plot or story is told. In a media text, it is the coherent sequencing of events across time and space.
Disinformation Is a type of misinformation that is intentionally false and intended to deceive or mislead.
Misinformation refers to false or out-of-context information that is presented as fact regardless of an intent to deceive.
Fake news false news stories, often of a sensational nature, created to be widely shared online for the purpose of generating ad revenue via web traffic or discrediting a public figure, political movement, company, etc.
Media literacy The process of understanding and using the mass media in an assertive and non-passive way. This includes an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the media, the techniques used by them and the impact of these techniques.
Critical viewing The ability to use critical thinking skills to view, question, analyze and understand issues presented overtly and covertly in movies, videos, television and other visual media.
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