Chapters 1-4
This protest in the Philippines resulted in the ousting of then-President Ferdinand Marcos, who had been in power for almost 21 years
What is People Power?
This ABS-CBN initiative empowered everyday people to speak up against corruption through the use of cell phones and social media
What is the citizen journalist program?
The ability to act with exemption from punishment, harm, or other negative consequences
What is impunity?
When citing in MLA, be sure to include these two pieces of information in your parenthetical citations
What is the author last name and the page number?
Ressa's Fulbright proposal focused on exploring the role of this type of "performance," which was designed to shape the way an audience thinks or feels about a topic, often by appealing to strong emotions
What is political theater?
Claiming that they will publish whatever they are paid to write, Mocha Uson invents this misogynistic term to discredit journalists
What is "presstitute"?
When a group or system behaves in a way that the individuals parts would not on their own
What is emergent behavior?
When considering how narrow or specific to make your thesis statement, one should consider this aspect of the assignment
What is the length of the paper?
Under leaders like Marcos and Suharto, these behaviors were rewarded in school and at the workplace
What are memorization, obedience, and repeating what the instructor/boss wants to hear?
According to Ressa, using social media alters the way our brains work, conditioning us to do this
What is... [multiple answers]
- seeking instant gratification?
- preferring sensationalism over objectivity?
Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern
What is civic engagement?
When quoting directly from another text, the end punctuation should go here
What is after the parentheses?
What is "stand up to bullies/silence is complicity"?
Duterte was elected, in large part, by identifying with voters and distinguishing himself as different from his competitors, appealing to this divisive mentality
What is "us against them"?
[DAILY DOUBLE] Duterte positioned himself as _____, while he claimed his competitors or critics represented _____.
The tendency in the reporting of events to dramatize and exaggerate in order to attract attention and increase circulation or audience share
What is sensationalism?
A silly way of referring a moment in which the writer plops a quote into their paper without context, explanation, or analysis
What is a "mic drop" or "hit-and-run" quote?
Despite Suharto banning discussion of these topics, the rioters Ressa interviewed often identified "the people from outside" as the originators of the violence
What are the topics of race, religion, and ethnicity?
The commodification of individuals' personal data (such as a person's activities, preferences, health, etc.) for profit, often through the sale of this data to advertisers for use in targeted ads
What is surveillance capitalism?
The use of multiple social media assets working together to misrepresent themselves, artificially increase the popularity of a candidate, a product, or other online content, or otherwise violate the platform's community standards
What is coordinated inauthentic behavior?
A thesis statement is not merely an observation or a fact; it requires this to support
What is evidence?