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how to understand media (Recognizing bias (types of bias (racial…

- - - - Attitudes or stereotypes that an individual/people have towards someone of a different race
        
        The headline for this article, " Colin Kaepernick: a cultural star turning into a global icon" this article mainly talks about how Kaepernick started to get noticed with not standing for the national anthem. It then leads to his reasoning which is he does not want to stand for a nation where black people are mistreated in. The bias is against presumably white people for "mistreating" black people. He never shows any evidence as to how this occurs which makes his reasoning very suspicious.
    - - very similar to racial bias, however is in the regard of gender differences
        
        This shows bias against the idea of multiple genders and that there are only two genders. Whoever made this had such a bias that they compared anyone that identified with any of the other genders they had a mental illness. Whether or not it is true, they don't show any evidence and just stick to their views without showing reasoning.
    - - A bias held between the different classes, Middle class vs Upper class vs lower class
        
        This was a tweet from twitter, the tweet said, "Unpaid internships are a way to ensure that only people from a privileged economic background can move forward in a field and should honestly be illegal." This person has a bias against privileged people(upper class) because only the upper class with enough wealth can get the opportunity to not be paid for an internship and be able to move up in that career with no economic struggle, while a lower class individual couldn't do this without possibly going into extreme debt because they aren't getting payed.
        
        No matter who you are or who you try to be, you will have some form of bias for something in your life. Your biases will affect how much of the actual truth you will share, and choose to receive. Misinformation starts from the snowball effect of peoples biases towards certain subject matters. Most media sources will have a bias against something, whether its a nation, political figure, a way of life, or race. Media will have bias, and they will pick and chose facts that support their bias. It is important to detect these biases, and the best way to so is by paying attention to how they portray one side of a issue vs the other. If they are vilifying one side but praising the other than they are being biased. If the media source only mentions one side of a story than they are being biased. However, If there is a news article or some other form of information that treats each side fairly and doesn't lean to one side or the other than they are most likely staying neutral.
    - - A series of ideas or beliefs held on by one person, or a collection of people not wanting to change those beliefs, which can relate to political ideas or other ideology's
        
        The article headline said, "Trump says NFL players who kneel during national anthem 'maybe shouldn't be in the country'" this article is against trump and his ideologies because it portrays his beliefs in a demonizing way and doesn't fairly represent him in this issue.
    - - A bias against someone or a group of people because of their religious, or lack of religious beliefs
        
        In this article a Colorado baker refused to bake a cake for a gay couple. Which led to a whole court case; in this example the focus is more on the principal rather than the article. This shows religious bias because the baker is a religious man, with very strong beliefs and he refused to make the cake because it was against his religion. The Gay couple then took this to court eventually the man was forced to bake the cake to not suffer charges. The man exhibited religious bias because since the couple was none religious he had an instant bias and attitude towards the couple, thus making him refuse service.
    - - A bias against someone because of where they come from/ their nationality
        
        This image shows Americans protesting, the US government when they let some Syrian refugees. They have bias against the people of a different nationality because the country is war torn and rumors had spread that some of the refugees were actually terrorists. There after stereotypes and attitudes formed towards these people and many Americans still have a negative bias towards anyone of a Syrian or Islam background.
    - - This is a bias between corporate, and anti-corporate. such as an individual holds disdain or attitude towards a corporate business just because it is a corporate business
        
        This is the reaction towards Starbucks after an employee mad some racist remarks towards a customer. The sign said, "#enough shame on you Starbucks #BLM" Black Lives Matter threw a whole anti Starbucks campaign until they fixed the problem with the racist comments. Many members had bias against corporate Starbucks and would not buy a single product until the issue was resolved.
- - - - this can be dangerous, but it is good for getting a large emotional reaction
      - This piece compares school to prison in the most extremes, it can provoke students into feeling like they are being treated like cannon fodder in the education system, because of all the similarities that it holds with prison. It can help "wake up" students to want to fight against the system to create a less strict school enviroment
    - - used to persuade you, it is usually biased and selective with facts
      - The article headline, "How did we get here from Ferguson?" It goes on to talk about the start of the issue with Michael Brown, and several other "unarmed" black men and it very subtly vilifies police officers for killing "innocent" black men, when the article fails to mention that the police officers were never aware of the people being unarmed and were more often than not charged at by these assailants. The article also fails to mention that there is a lack of evidence to prove that this had to do with racism.
    - - Makes you laugh, or is used to pass the time, usually has some form of truth to it
      - I used this meme because it had a lot of truth to it, and it entertained me. Which specifically falls into the category for this section of info zones, typically most forms of entertainment in media will fall into this category
    - - to convince you to buy something
      - This is an ad with a simple image of a coffee mug as a fuel dial and its pointed to the full side of the gauge, this is intended to pump up coffee junkies to get coffee at this coffee joint
    - - only informs people of a topic
      - The article headline, 'After Irma, Florida prepares for days — and maybe weeks — without power" the rest of the article talks about the aftermath and how many Floridian's were affected by the hurricane, the main problem being the lack of power. This is informative because there is no bias of any kind in the article and, the only thing the article does is convince you that the hurricane had a drastic impact on the people.
        
        Overall here aren't any zone in the info zones that will purposefully mislead you, with the exception of the persuade and provoke zones. Both of these zones are typically going to try to get you to act rashly upon a subject matter by playing with your emotions, or misguiding you with facts to believe something that is not true. Both of these info zones are the main components to how misinformation is built, and it is often the foundation that influences how misinformation is made. It is very important that anytime you are looking at any media source, that you identify what its purpose is for existing, and once that decision is made it is best to determine how you are going to interpret the information it gives.
    - - shows information, cannot be biased, and there is usually no context
      - This is an example of the document info zone because there is no context, and nothing to describe what is going on, all that is seen is people protesting about their rent. Additionally documented information can also be on video
- - - - Uses a well known name, brand or logo to fool people into believing that it is authentic content
        
        This image is of Donald Trump making the tweet, "Why do people hate Hitler?" this is impostor content because it is of a well known name, being trump, and this post is trying to make people think that what Trump said is authentic and that he actually said that when he didn't
    - - something is altered form the original, such as images that have had content added or removed using photo editing tools
        
        This was an image of banana ducks, it is an obvious example where photo editing tools were used to add duck heads and duck feet to the bananas to make it appear to be "banana ducks". As harmless as this example may seem this can be used in very harmful ways; an extreme example could be photo shopping Donald Trump without a shirt while standing in front of some kids which would mislead people for obvious reasons.
    - - takes an image, quote or other piece of content and puts it into a new false context to change its meaning
        
        The words at the top of the page say, " I'm 50% sure this phone is stolen" which is false context because this post took a photo of a presumably African American with discolored skin who had taken a selfie for herself to show the confidence she has in herself. They then preceded to use the image out of context and change its meaning into a racial joke because she looks half white and half black.
    - - entirely made up and designed to deceive you into thinking that its real
        
        This is an image of the teenager who lead a march against guns in wake of a school shooting in Parkland that happened a while ago the original image is of her ripping a target symbol, however someone had edited it and made the image appear to be of her ripping the constitution in half.
        
        The main difference between fabricated content and manipulated content is that manipulated content is strictly related to photos and its main purpose is to mislead and freak people out. While fabricated content can be of images, news articles, and etc. and it has more of a purpose to provoke anger and confusion
        
        All of these types of misinformation are very effective in misleading people to believing in something that is entirely false and not true. More often than not, misinformation goes hand and hand with all the types of bias, as usually bias is a main motivator for one to try and make misinformation. Therefore it is important for one to be vigilant and cautious for what they see floating around on the internet and to do extensive research before believing anything they see.
    - - Use of humor or exaggeration to critique or make a person, organization, or policy
        
        This image is an example of satire, it is making a critique on the UN for how poorly and terribly timed they came to stop the genocide that occurred in Sudan which created the lost boys of Sudan a group of 20, 000 children who became orphans.