CALS 195 Propaganda Class, 15 Jan
2015 in-class writing
exercise:
1.
What is Propaganda?
1. Information (not always true)
spread to the masses used
to influence their opinions and thoughts.
2. What the government wants us to
see.
3. Something used in the media to
sway your opinion on a
specific matter.
4. The systematic control and
exploitation of media
resources
5. Impacts of the media.
Advertising.
6. Distributed media / content with
the intent of imparting
a specific message, agenda, or belief.
7. Means by which the media get us to
buy into what they are
saying. A set of
tactics to suck us into
the media world.
8. An advertising technique that
ultimately forces the
viewer to believe in the ad based on the skewed/bias
information within.
9. A form of advertising something or
promoting something.
10. Forms of persuasion used to
convince people of something
that’s usually exaggerated.
11. A message cultivated to convey a
specific meaning to a
select audience. Any
media. Manufactured
to make the audience think or
fell a specific way.
12. A Message aimed at a specific
group in order to get them
to buy/think/do and idea/action.
13. The use of media to push an
ideology, typically
associated with political agendas.
14. Persuasive media through use of
emotions, logic,
corrupted or created data, or any other tactic to sway people
to believe
something.
15. Advertising and media designed to
make you think a
certain way.
16. Objects or visuals in the media
meant to force a certain
idea or opinion on the public, often times less than the
truth.
17. Way information is viewed /
presented to the public not
always being correct. Information
being
conveyed with the view of the writer / reporter.
18. A technique used by the media to
alter ones paradigm and
how they view certain things.
19. The use of media, journalism,
news, etc. to further an
agenda. The
published pieces of media
have been altered or edited to get a specific message to the
viewer.
20. Any media that implicitly or
explicitly supports or
espouses certain political or social ideologies.
21. Utilization of the media to
express passion for a
certain movement or subject, it is more often found as like
opposite, in order
to shed light on wrongdoings.
22. Biased political views that may
be comprised of comedy,
parody, or exaggeration in order to skew the Audience’s
ideology in favor of
the suggested agenda. Ex.
Yellow
Journalism.