Chapters 1-4
Lessons that Ressa learned when she first moved from the Philippines to the United States (+200 for each correct answer out of four)
Make the choice to learn
Embrace fear
Stand up to bullies/silence is complicity
No one can accomplish anything meaningful alone
When an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold and spreads like wildfire. (+200 for each associated "principle")
What is the tipping point?
3 principles: the law of the few, the stickiness factor, the power of context
A system in which branches of the government can hold each other accountable, preventing overreach. For example, the president's ability to veto legislation created by Congress.
What are checks and balances?
This is a classroom, not a cafeteria - avoid using this formulaic structure to write your college-level papers
What is the hamburger structure?
These two things go at the topic right corner of every page of your essay
What is your last name and the page number?
A million people flooded EDSA (one of the largest highways in Manila) in response to twenty years of the Marcos dictatorship in this historic revolution.
What is People Power?
This program empowered a soldier to expose the truth of who was behind the Maguindanao massacre by sending a photo to ABS-CBN.
What is the citizen journalist program?
This type of journalist leans on the side of evidence and facts.
What is a "good" journalist? (Ressa 72)
An effective thesis statement should be these three things
What is concise, coherent, and disputable?
This information appears at the top left of the first page of your paper
What is student name, class, instructor name, and due date?
Ressa opened a CNN bureau in this Southeast Asian city, where she reported on the rise of racially charged mob violence in response to the Asian financial crisis.
What is Jakarta, Indonesia?
This change to Facebook's news feed led to increased polarization and a degradation of our "shared reality"
What are individual feeds based on algorithms?
What is political theater?
This part of your paper can be likened to the "preview" of a movie. (Explain why.)
What is the introduction?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Explain the difference between an introduction and an abstract.
This is good title for an expository paper about the relationship between social media and the spread of disinformation.
In Indonesia and the Philippines, Ressa discovered that these qualities were valued as a result of time spent under authoritarian rule.
Populists like Duterte sew division between groups by creating a narrative of "us vs. them." In this case, journalists represent _______, and Duterte and his supporters represent _______.
What are the wealthy elite vs. everyday citizens?
The attempt to create the illusion of organic, widespread support for a policy or candidate. Support is meant to look like it comes from the community, but is actually seeded by governments or corporations.
What is astroturfing?
Step by step, describe a technique for integrating evidence (paraphrase or quote) into your paper.
Write a sentence including MLA parenthetical citation using the following information:
Author: Maria Ressa
Book: How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Publication Year:2022
Page Number: 210
Quote: "Above all, I came to see how international law needed revamping because of the root cause: the changes in our information ecosystem."
Duterte's installment of approximately 6,000 appointees based on their loyalty is an example of this type of political system.
What is feudalism?
OR
What is patronage politics?