Media Literacy - High School

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  1. acronym
    a word formed from the initial letters of several words
  2. ad hominem
    appealing to personal considerations rather than to reason
  3. advertisement
    a public promotion of some product or service
  4. agency
    an administrative unit of government
  5. argument
    an assertion offered as evidence that something is true
  6. art form
    a form of artistic expression
  7. assumption
    a statement that is held to be true
  8. audience
    the part of the general public interested in something
  9. bandwagon
    a popular trend that attracts growing support
  10. bias
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  11. blog
    an online journal where people post about their experiences
  12. broadcast
    message that is transmitted by radio or television
  13. camera angle
    the point of view of a camera
  14. campaign
    a series of actions tending toward a particular end
  15. censorship
    deleting parts of publications or theatrical performances
  16. claim
    an assertion that something is true or factual
  17. communications
    the discipline that studies transmitting information
  18. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  19. consumer
    a person who uses goods or services
  20. coverage
    the news as presented by reporters for the media
  21. credibility
    the quality of being believable or trustworthy
  22. critique
    appraise or judge in an analytical way
  23. data
    a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
  24. datum
    an item of factual information from measurement or research
  25. deconstruct
    interpret by carefully examining a work's ideas and language
  26. documentary
    a film presenting the facts about a person or event
  27. editing
    putting something into acceptable form
  28. editorial
    an article giving opinions or perspectives
  29. effectiveness
    power to be effective
  30. endorse
    give support or one's approval to
  31. entertainment
    an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
  32. ethical
    conforming to accepted standards of social behavior
  33. ethics
    motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
  34. evidence
    knowledge on which to base belief
  35. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
  36. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  37. formality
    a requirement of etiquette or custom
  38. format
    the general appearance of a publication
  39. government agency
    an administrative unit of government
  40. graphic art
    the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking
  41. graphics
    photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication
  42. illusion
    something many people believe that is false
  43. image
    the general impression that something presents to the public
  44. impact
    a strong influence
  45. implicit
    suggested though not directly expressed
  46. influence
    a power to affect persons or events
  47. inform
    impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to
  48. informal
    having the simple or familiar structure of everyday language
  49. informative
    providing or conveying a message
  50. innuendo
    an indirect and usually malicious implication
  51. journalism
    the profession of reporting or editing news stories
  52. layout
    a plan or design of something that is laid out
  53. logical fallacy
    an error in reasoning that undermines an argument
  54. marketing
    the commercial processes in promoting and selling something
  55. mass medium
    a technology that publicly transmits to a large audience
  56. medium
    a technology that publicly transmits to a large audience
  57. multimedia
    the use of many types of communication simultaneously
  58. name calling
    verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
  59. network
    a communication system consisting of broadcasting stations
  60. objectivity
    judgment based on observable phenomena
  61. opinion
    a personal belief or judgment
  62. perception
    a way of conceiving something
  63. periodical
    a publication that appears at fixed intervals
  64. persuade
    cause somebody to adopt a certain position or belief
  65. persuasion
    communication intended to induce belief or action
  66. persuasive
    intended or having the power to induce action or belief
  67. podcast
    a digital audio file made available on the internet
  68. point of view
    a mental position from which things are perceived
  69. political campaign
    the state of being considered for some position or degree
  70. print media
    a medium that disseminates printed matter
  71. production
    presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television
  72. profit
    excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time
  73. propaganda
    information that is spread to promote some cause
  74. publication
    a copy of a printed work offered for distribution
  75. public opinion
    a belief or sentiment shared by most people
  76. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  77. red herring
    something intended to distract attention from the main issue
  78. regulation
    the act of controlling or directing according to rule
  79. search engine
    a computer program that retrieves documents or files or data from a database or from a computer network (especially from the internet)
  80. slant
    a biased way of looking at or presenting something
  81. slanted
    favoring one person or side over another
  82. sound effect
    an effect that imitates a sound called for in the script of a play
  83. source
    a document from which information is obtained
  84. special effect
    an effect used to produce scenes that cannot be achieved by normal techniques (especially on film)
  85. stereotype
    a conventional or formulaic conception or image
  86. straw man
    a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted
  87. subjectivity
    judgment based on individual impressions and feelings
  88. subject matter
    what a communication that is about something is about
  89. subliminal
    below the threshold of conscious perception
  90. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  91. televise
    broadcast via a system that transmits images over distance
  92. testimonial
    praise of a person or thing as worthy or desirable
  93. tone
    a quality that reveals the attitudes of the author
  94. trend
    a general direction in which something tends to move
  95. typeface
    a specific size and style of type within a type family
  96. value
    an ideal accepted by some individual or group
  97. values
    beliefs of a group in which they have emotional investment
  98. viewpoint
    a mental position from which things are considered
Created on Thu Jan 19 10:49:14 EST 2017 (updated Wed Mar 29 15:43:16 EDT 2017)

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