MEDIA LITERACY PROPAGANDA VOCAB 3

PROPAGANDA

• Information designed to influence opinions or actions

• Favoring one side unfairly

• Using negative labels to attack someone

• Encouraging people to join because “everyone else is doing it”

BIAS

• Encouraging people to join because “everyone else is doing it”

• Favoring one side unfairly

• Information designed to influence opinions or actions

• Using negative labels to attack someone

PERSUASION

• Favoring one side unfairly

• Attempting to convince someone to think or act a certain way

• 1. Controlling or influencing someone unfairly or dishonestly.

• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

BANDWAGON

• Information designed to influence opinions or actions

• Favoring one side unfairly

• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

• Encouraging people to join because “everyone else is doing it”

NAME-CALLING

• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

• Using a famous person to support a message

• The influences and consequences of the audience
• Using negative labels to attack someone

TESTIMONIAL

• Using negative labels to attack someone

• Using a famous person to support a message

• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

• The values and ideas that are promoted by the media

PLAIN FOLKS

• Referring to multiple forms of communication. Another term for the word “media”.
• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

• Stretching the truth to make something seem better or worse.

• media having to do with the political stance of the message sent

EXAGGERATION

• The values and ideas that are promoted by the media
• The vehicle for a message
• Stretching the truth to make something seem better or worse.

• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

HALF-TRUTH

• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

• The influences and consequences of the audience
• A statement that includes some truth but leaves out important details.

• Referring to multiple forms of communication. Another term for the word “media”.

OVERSIMPLIFICATION

• Presenting someone as an ordinary, relatable person.

• Making a complex issue seem simple

• Using an expert or leader’s opinion to strengthen a message.

• Stretching the truth to make something seem better or worse.