News Media and Rhetoric
Rhetorical strategy based on character, credibility, and reliability of speaker or writer.
What is Ethos?
The idea that some people have better access to informational resources than others.
What is information privilege?
When a speaker or writer uses emotion to make her/his case persuasive.
What is pathos?
Journalism broadly relies on this rhetorical appeal about timeliness to get you to care about the news.
What is kairos?
This person, a pioneer of the internet, authored the "Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto" before his untimely death.
Who is Aaron Swartz?
What is logos?
This theory by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman holds that, in general, news media functions not to help people become better informed citizens but to make money for their corporate owners and maintain the status quo.
What is the Propaganda Model?
The movement to make all scholarly and scientific information available to the public around the world free of charge
What is the Open Access Movement?
A field of study centered around the persuasive abilities of computers.
What is Captology?
The Five Filters of news media detailed in the 1988 book Manufacturing Consent:The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
What is:
1. Corporate Ownership
2. Media Elite
3. Advertisers
4. Flak
5. Common Enemy
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The scholarly database that initially sought to press charges following the mass dissemination of its paywalled content from a computer at MIT.
What is JSTOR?
This term in Psychology was coined in honor of a famous researcher after he created what he described as an "operant conditioning chamber.” Today some are using it to described humans' relationship with social media and technology more generally.
What is a Skinner Box?
This new organization from the middle east published a short video detailing a foundational theory about the news media and power in the United States.
What is Al-Jazeera or AJ+?
The the three assumptions of the Media Ecology Theory developed by Marhall McLuhan in the 1960s.
What is :
1) Media are infused in every act and action
2) Media fix our perceptions about the world around us
3) Media ties the world together
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The six social functions of rhetoric theorized by communication specialist James A. Herrick.
What is:
1) Rhetoric Tests Ideas
2) Rhetoric Assists Advocacy
3) Rhetoric Distributes Power
4) Rhetoric Discovers Facts
5) Rhetoric Shapes Knowledge
6) Rhetoric Builds Community
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