Mass Media Unit Terms

A news site shows you more stories about celebrity drama after you clicked on one post last week.

A movie shows all scientists as awkward and socially clueless. What is this an example of?

Fact-based accounts of actual & crucial events is considered hard news.

When watching a news report, you focus only on the facts that support your existing beliefs. What is this called?

Which of these would be considered soft news?

A major network breaks a story about a government corruption scandal with verified sources. What type of news is this?

Your friend shares an article titled "Aliens Found in New York!" What's the best first step to show media literacy?

An environment where a person only encounters information that reinforces their beliefs is known as perceptual filtering

Which situation best shows a paradigm shift?

A government removes all news reports about the bombings of a helpless country. What's this an example of?

Which is an example of perceptual filtering?

The study of an audience to determine its characteristics

Due to seeing a particular commercial during every break, you now have a dislike for this company.

If your marketing team tells you your main demographic is ages 16-25, what does this mean?

Someone believes all gamers are antisocial. What term describes this oversimplified assumption?

An image of a protest is edited to only show people yelling, even though it was peaceful. What is being manipulated?

You watched one video about cats. Now your feed is 90% cats. What caused this?

A teen watches only YouTube creators who share their exact political views. They now believe everyone thinks the same.

What is a key part of media literacy?

The complex mix of attitudes, beliefs, and experiences that cause a person to think about things in a particular way

What is one way photo composition affects how we view people?

The intentional suppression of information to prevent it from being received by an audience.