june 4

the front pages of the papers on the front wall of the room are all from the same day.

Choose one. There are more than enough for everyone to have their own.

On your blog, consider both the content and how it is constructed.

What are the stories? How are they told? what sort of language is used?

How many words in the headlines? What makes up the opening sentences?

As always. use examples.

Then, using what you have found, consider what audience reads the paper you have selected.




When and if you complete this task, you may clean up any work incomplete from the previous assignments.

Friday June 1st

Am still messed up.

SL &HL
Using your annotations from your reading of Chomsky, post three outstanding quotes from each section on your blog.

Then go back to the work you did on Tuesday and see if any of your news propaganda articles fit these.

If not, find ones that do

You'll need American Newspapers for the last of Chomsky's ideas

when done with that...

please continue with the assignment from last class.

you can use today's and yesterday's papers as well.

post everything on your blog.

HL
you will have a study period

we will pick up the lesson next week

Wednesday May 30th

sorry I can't be with you today

the post on propaganda will be your focus today

There are the seven and the three of eight approaches as well as more info on the linked sights

assignment: scavenger hunt

on your blog you will need to post a consideration of as many as you can find with examples and point form explanations from today's newspapers taken from here and or here. (you can download them and post on your blog)

linking your pieces to our logical fallacies work, or even better your reading of Chomsky will of course result in immediate bonus points of the sucrerie variété 

homework: SL & HL Finish Chomsky for Friday 


HL first story from Open Secrets and End of Man article (emailed already)

The internet is the best place for dissent to start

Ethan Zuckerman's compelling 'cute cats theory' has changed my mind about the internet's role in the struggle for global justice

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/jan/03/the-internet-best-dissent-start

see also,

Ethan Zuckerman- Cute Cats and the Arab Spring: When Social Media Meet Social Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkDFVz_VL_I

Propaganda

...uses all the tricks we have learned to convince the audience of what they should know better than to believe.

review our Sender-Message-Audience paradigm

We shall be using this site from George Mason University and this site as our  foundation sources

Seven Types of Propaganda

• Name Calling
• Glittering Generalities
• Transfer
• Testimonial
• Plain Folks
• Card Stacking
• Band Wagon

 Also divided thus into three of eight (yeah yeah, I know...)

Word games

Name-calling

Glittering generalities

Euphemisms 

 

False connection

Transfer 

Testimonial 

 

Special Appeals

Plain Folks

Bandwagon

Fear

Consider in terms of our work on the language of Global climate destabilization, and what our good friend Mr. Chomsky has to say.

occam's razor

given two conclusions with two interpretations of evidence, the simplest is always the best

problematic because.....

Logical Fallacies

Fallacies of Relevance
- evidence used is irrelevant to the actual argument, often relying on psychology or emotion to affect the audience
 ie.

• bandwagon
• stereotyping

Fallacies of Components/Composition
 -  a reliance on one part of the whole being true (or false), therefore the whole argument is true (or false)
ie.

• atoms are not visible to the naked eye, humans are made of atoms, ergo humans are not visible to the naked eye

Fallacies of Ambiguity
 - incorrect reasoning due to imprecise/incorrect use of language

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Fallacies of Omission
-necessary information or data is left out in order to misdirect others

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