Media Literacy and Democracy Flashcards
Grade 12 · Social Studies · Flashcards
Essential concepts for navigating the modern media landscape and understanding media's role in democracy.
Flashcards
- Media Literacy
- Ability to critically access, analyze, evaluate, and create media; essential for democratic citizenship.
- Disinformation
- Deliberately false information spread with intent to deceive; contrasts with misinformation (false info spread without intent).
- Framing
- How media emphasizes certain aspects of an issue — through word choice, prominence, and context — shaping audience perception.
- Agenda-Setting
- Media's power to determine which issues the public thinks about, through decisions about what stories to cover and how prominently.
- Echo Chamber
- An information environment where only reinforcing views are encountered; reduces exposure to challenging perspectives.
- Filter Bubble
- Algorithm-curated information environment showing users only content matching past behavior; can limit exposure to diverse viewpoints.
- Confirmation Bias
- Tendency to favor information confirming existing beliefs and dismiss contradicting evidence.
- Propaganda
- Communication designed to manipulate political beliefs and behavior, using emotional appeals, distortion, and selective information.
- Deepfake
- AI-generated realistic video/audio of a person saying or doing something they never actually did.
- False Balance
- Presenting two positions as equally valid when evidence strongly supports one; can distort understanding of scientific or empirical questions.
- SIFT Method
- Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, Trace claims — a framework for verifying information before sharing.
- Press Freedom (First Amendment)
- Constitutional protection of the press from government censorship; cornerstone of a free democratic press.
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