Flashcards
Unit One ~ Media Literacy ~ Government
Cards in this deck (15)
- 1IdeologyHow 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.
- 2Conservativeis a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and preserve traditional social institutions and practices.
- 3Liberalpolitical doctrine that takes protecting and enhancing the freedom of the individual to be the central problem of politics.
- 4ConsumersThe audience for whom a commercial media text is constructed and who responds to the text with commercial activity.
- 5PropagandaAny media text whose primary purpose is to openly persuade an audience of the validity of a particular point of view.
- 6Biasmessaging involving the slanting or altering of information to make a political position or political candidate seem more attractive.
- 7Framingrefers to how the media focuses attention on certain events and then places them within a field of meaning.
- 8Primingrefers to how media continues to supply the audience with more information related to their chosen agenda.
- 9Agenda Settingrefers to how media may not exactly tell you what to think, but they may tell you what to think about.
- 10NarrativeHow the plot or story is told. In a media text, it is the coherent sequencing of events across time and space.
- 11DisinformationIs a type of misinformation that is intentionally false and intended to deceive or mislead.
- 12Misinformationrefers to false or out-of-context information that is presented as fact regardless of an intent to deceive.
- 13Fake newsfalse 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.
- 14Media literacyThe 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.
- 15Critical viewingThe 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.