Week 2, Jan 25-29, 2016
CDAE 195 Propaganda, Media Ownership, and Citizen
Responsibility
CRN 13743, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Martin Luther King
Lounge (Billings)
In class writing:
How do you decide if something is true? For
example: a claim in a commercial, a statistic presented
in a graph, a friend telling you a story. What do
you look for? What questions do you ask?
What process do you go through?
REMINDER DUE MONDAY:
Media Inventory Log Assignment
(5% of course grade):
Record all media you consume for
one week - from now (Friday 22
January 11:40am) until Friday 29
January beginning of our class
(10:50am). The assignment
will be due on Monday February 1
at the beginning of our class.
Bring this with you at all times
for the next week and enter the
information by hand. You
should record what you listened
to, watched, browsed, or read,
and for how long. Include
information like type of movie
watched (drama, comedy, etc.),
and whether there were
propaganda words used and
(unasked for) advertising that
you were exposed to.
TOTAL your media usage in
minutes for each media category
at the bottom of each media log
page.
Calculate and estimated Cost of
the media per month using the
last sheet.
Write a reflection paper (at
least one to three full pages)
where you describe the process –
what it was like for you to
complete the assignment, and the
results. Do an analysis:
what did you find interesting,
what was unexpected, will this
change the way you look at your
media usage or your
behavior? Which media is
most important to you and
why? What do you think
about unasked for advertising
that you saw or heard?
ASSIGNMENT COMING: Choose any presidential candidate
speech that is online (Vimeo, YouTube, etc), and find at
least five examples of Propaganda
Techniques that are used. Record when these
techniques appear in the speech and be prepared to show
them to us using our classroom's computer.