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Internet Search. Media & Propaganda

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Internet Search. Media& Propagandachecking for websites reliability
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Definitions

The Media:

The main means of mass communication (television, radio and newspapers)


Propaganda:

A message designed to persuade its intended audience to think an behave in a certain manner. It is the spreading of information, to promote a narrow political or religious viewpoint.


Bias:


A particular tendency or inclination, specifically one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question.

Bibliography

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/media


http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/propaganda.html


http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bias

Propaganda Techniques Propaganda Techniques

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Badwagon

being influenced to follow the crowd in order to fit in, because everyone else is doing it

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Scapegoating

blaming a problem on one person/group of people , even though there could be other factors involved

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Lesser of two evils

convincing you to make a bad choice by comparing it to something worse when there could be another option

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Down with the kids

acting differently in order to be accepted by a group so they will listen to you

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Assertion

saying something like it's a fact, but really its just a statement, that may or may not be true

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Omission

missing out small facts which radically change the meaning of the message

Internet Search Techniques Internet Search Techniques

Operators

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"


Other Operators:

link: The link: used to search all the indexed pages that link to the specified domain, directory, or document.

info: The info: used to display the information possessed by Google concerning the site in question.

related: The related: used to find all indexed pages that are "similar" to your site, according to Google.

How to check a page for reliability How to check a page for reliability

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Checking the URL

to see if its an organization. governmental page or other type

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Checking the date it was updated

to make sure the info is up to date. Depending on the topic if the site was updated may not be important

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Checking the author

to see who he is, and whether his point of view is extremist or not

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Unreliability

pages which contain ".org" can be owned by anybody, meaning the organization may not be real even

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Author

we can check if the author seems knowledgeable about the topic imposed, and shared in the page or if its any random info.

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Information

the site may offer incorrect information

Images

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