Geography Unit 1 Review

• 4 types of propaganda

  • Appeal to emotion
  • Transfer
  • Bandwagon
  • Fear Mongering
• Appeal to emotion


  Attempts to create emotional response to influence behaviour
• Transfer


  Transferring positive/negative qualities from one person, entity, object or value to another
• Bandwagon


  Aims to convince individuals to adopt a particular belief or behaviour because "everyone is doing it" (peer pressure)
• Fear Mongering


  Create or exaggerate a threat or fear to persuade the audience to support a particular cause or take specific action
• Factors impacting perspective


  • Socioeconomic status
  • Ethnic background
  • Age
  • Schooling
  • Religious beliefs
• Perspective


  Influences how you view issues, what you believe about how society should operate, and how you think social issues should be managed
• Perspective is important, subject open to discussion and debate
• Social issues are multifaceted with complex causes, involving interrelated environmental, social and political components
• Social issues result in complex, imperfect solutions which value various perspectives
• Propaganda


  The spreading of ideas, information, or rumour to the purpose of helping/injuring an institution, cause, or person
• Civil discourse


  Respectful/polite communication when discussing differing opinions
• Civil discourse


  • Often painful/ideological
  • Aim: understanding each others perspectives
• Evaluating validity


  • Authorship
  • Bias: prejudice/preference for or against a particular point of view
  • Explicit bias
  • Date of publication
  • Referencing
• Implicit bias


  Unconscious bias in which an individual operates outside their awareness
• Explicit bias


  Conscious bias in which an individual is aware of their prejudices, preferences, and attitudes
• Euphemism


  The substitution of an inoffensive expression for one that may be offensive or unpleasant to the listener
• Euphemism


  • example is Downsizing instead of firing
• Globalization


  The trend toward greater interconnectedness of countries, economies, cultures, societies
• Types of globalization


  • Cultural spreading of cultural elements
  • Trade of goods and products
  • Political trend toward greater political unities and greater international collaboration and cooperation
  • Technological growing global interconnectedness through advanced tech such as phone, internet, etc.
  • Ecological - environmental performance and human development
• Jargon


  Specialized language used in a specific group, profession or culture used to express ideas, distinguishing those who belong to that group and those who don't
• Sensationalism


  Exaggerating/manipulating aspects of a story to make it more attention-grabbing, dramatic, entertaining
• Spin


  Twisting a story to portray an event or situation in a favourable way to a particular point of view or political situation
• Opinions are subjective and disputable
• Facts are objective and indisputable, verifiable with evidence
• Digital divide


  Gap between people who have access to technology and those that don't
• Socioeconomic status


  Level of money you have and can significantly impact your position on an issue
• List the characteristics of an issue.

  
  

  multifacted, complex causes, interrelated environmental, social and political components, result in complex imperfect solutions, involves various perspectives
• what are the types of globalization?

  cultural, political, technological, ecological
• Cultural globalization is the spreading of cultural elements such as ideas, events, tradition and products
• Political globalization is the trend toward greater political policies and greater international collaboration and cooperation.
• Technological globalization is the growing global interconnectedness through advances tech such as phones, internet, etc.
• Ecological globalization is the environmental performance and human development.
• What are the characteristics of media bias?

  • use of overly emotional adjective/language
  • selective reporting
  • omitting key details/information