JOUR 302 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Microsoft Powerpoint, Kansas, Go Game
12 Oct 2018
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JOUR 302
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
JOUR 302-Lecture #1
Today’s activities:
1. What are misconceptions about the Information Age?
2. Partners: refine research questions.
3. Assign news post #1.
4. Students work:
a. Show professor your fleshed-out topic.
b. Complete news post.
Information Age
• All information has some truth behind it
o Misconception
• People are gettig hat’s fed to the ased o their iterests o soial edia
o You might think you are getting all of the news sources
▪ Causes bias, polarization, and conflict
• People a’t alas tell if information is legitimate
o People will trust the source anyways
o Look at other sources
o How do you figure out if it is propaganda?
▪ Look at the authors other articles and see if they are bias
• The information Age is relatively new and people are trying to figure it out
• Fake Nes- Trup tells people hat is real es ad hat is’t
o His folloers ill eliee eerthig he alls fake es hile others ill eer
listen
How does the information age change society?
• People get information all the time
• Overload of information
• Studies show that this creates more stress
• People feel the eed to hek their phoes regularl so e do’t iss athig
• It’s eerhere
• 100 years ago- libraries (not as extensive), schools, letters
o Did everybody have access? No
o There was’t as uh iforatio to teah
• The Press
o Relied on newspapers
It is very important to consider the misconceptions about the Information Age when doing
your research.
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Are computer executives overpaid?
• FLAWS in the question:
o Too broad/ not well defined
o Opinion-based
• How might we change this question?
o How much do computer executives at one company make compared to other
companies?
o Is the oputer eeutie name” overpaid compared to computer executive
name”?
Class time work:
1. Choose a fleshed-out topic.
a. Example: Whether CrossFit is good or bad for your health
2. Find a news post.
3. Create a quick summary. (2-3 paragraphs)
4. Determine if it is credential or not. (1 paragraph)
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