Media BiasThursday, April 23rd 2015

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Mentor workshop: COLLEGE!

Activity

Brainstorm 5 specific topic ideas within the SKILLS day project ideas you turned in last time.

Examples:● How does Cookie Lyon’s use of AAE on ‘Empire’ add to the

character’s personality/persona?● How does English-only education effect bilingual students’ language

attitudes (toward native lang. or English)?● How do labels for male and female professionals’ behavior (e.g.

assertive vs. abrasive) reflect gender stereotypes or expected roles?

What is Media?

What is media?

■ Media generally refers to any kind of format used to convey information.

■ Music, video games, billboards, news, text messaging can all be examples.

■ Mass media refers to media designed to reach large numbers of people.

Mass Media

■ Television (cable, network, satellite, etc.)

■ Radio

■ Film & Video

■ Print (newspapers, magazines, direct mail, etc.)

■ Photography

■ Electronic (E-mail, the Internet, etc.)

News Media

■ Any form of mass media that focuses on presenting current news and events to the public.

■ Many formats: print, radio, magazines, television, internet.

■ Maintains widespread control over the dissemination of information, and power in shaping what we know and how we think about local and global events and issues.

New Media

■ New Media: A term referring to internet

based media.

■ Examples include facebook, twitter,

youtube, etc.

■ Used in news media as a new source of

news and information: Viewer feedback,

self-journalism, etc.

■ We will discuss this in more depth in the

next few weeks.

Media Bias

❖ What is covered by the media.

❖ How it’s covered.

Media Bias, cont.

Media Bias, cont.

Journal

How do media representations of people and languages affect stereotypes?

What effects does this have in the real world?Can you think of other examples of media bias?