MEDIA UNIT TERMS LIST
INTRO to the Media Unit PP
On the Media episode “Doubt It”
Tie back to Knowledge/ Epistemology. What connections can be made? Listen and annotate in your journal and be prepared to discuss tomorrow (daily grade)
Theorist: a person concerned with the theoretical aspects of a subject; a theoretician.
Explain your assigned theory and how it is used to explain ways in which the media is used and ways in which it influences us as individuals and as a society.
Theories:
1. Active Audience Theory
2. Agenda-Setting Theory
3. Feiler Faster Thesis
4. Hypodermic Needle Model
5. Image Restoration Theory
6. Ritual View of Communication
& VIDEO
7. Two Step Flow of Communication
Logical fallacies - make cartoons & guess each other’s 2 students per fallacy
Presidential Speeches - Identify the Logical fallacies
Advertisements Containing Fallacies
Logical Fallacy Notes Guide
How do various mediums impact messages, changes in technology, etc? How does the medium affect the message?
"The Medium is the Message" + Questions
Short Explanation
Interview with Marshall McLuhan
T'he Medium is [Not] the Message (on Facebook)
On early photography
History of The Daguerreotype
Go here to read the full text of Society of the Spectacle
Podcast on Society of the Spectacle
NY Times article quoting Susan Sontag thinking about Debord
PP from day of Marx and Debord
Politics and The Society of the Spectacle
Spicer & DWTS (on Spectacle)
Happiness Video (see The Spectacle in action)
If Advertisers Told the Truth
Watch The Truman Show + Questions
Truman Show Readings HERE, HERE, & HERE
Excerpt from Hedges Empire of Illusion & Notes Guide (quiz grade)
The Rise (and downfall?) of Google
Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death - The Age of Show Business/Teaching as an Amusing Activity
Chapter on Media as Epistemology + Questions
Teaching as an Amusing Activity"
Guiding Questions
Lessons From Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman clip v. How Serial Adnan Syed a new trial - what it does to our consciousness
Bias in media - watch tv/shows/movies and track underrepresented groups, stereotypes, gaps, spectacle, etc.
Racism - underreporting, language, hyperbole, etc.
How framing and language have affected criminalization of marijuana
Adnan Syed
FEAR & RISK in MEDIA
The ORIGIN of MEMES
MEDIA PROJECT
MEDIA PROJECT RUBRIC