HOW TO UNDERSTAND INTERNET MEDIA
THE MEDIA,PROPAGANDA INTERNET SEARCHING
DEFINITIONS OF THE MEDIA, PROPAGANDA AND BIAS
- THE MEDIA; 'The means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers,and magazines, that reach or influence people widely'.
- PROPAGANDA; 'Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement,institution, nation, etc'.
- BIAS; 'A statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others'.
PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES
Bandwagon
Bandwagon is trying to convince the people that one side is the winning side, because more people have joined it.
Omission
It involves only presenting information that is positive and omitting information contrary to it.
Assertion
Any time an advertiser states that their product is the best without providing evidence for this.
INTERNET SEARCH TECHNIQUES
Basic Search Operators [ ^ ]
Find all pages containing…
this that thing
returns all pages containing the terms "this", "that", and "thing"
this OR that
returns all pages containing either the term "this" or "that"
"this that and the other thing"
returns all pages containing the exact phrase "this that and the other thing"
this -that
returns all pages containing the term "this" but not the term "that"
this +that
returns all pages containing the terms "this" and "that"
define:this
returns a definition of the term "this"