Evaluating Messages Flashcards
These must be scrutinized properly, if not, they may become agents of misinformation and lead people to form wrong judgement wrongly presented to the audience.
Media messages
In order to ensure that the messages have effectiveness, we can ask ourselves if the purpose evident? or is the core message clear?
Simplicity
This refers to our choices of language and its language concreteness, rather than abstract and if it uses words which have additional meanings and could perhaps be misconstrued.
specificity
To have an effective message, ideas should be organized and easy to follow and if there is a more effective war to arrange the ideas.
Structure
It is an important step in evaluating an image and understanding its meaning
Visual Analysis
To evaluate the messages are effective, coherence and unity of ideas should be displayed or achieved.
Stickiness
This is one of the biases in media that for every news story are selected, there are many others that are left out.
Bias by omission
Consider how the placement of the message influences people’s sense (logic, intellect or wisdom) of what is important, to avoid a particular media bias.
Bias by emphasis
It requires you to think about what the object is, what its role in society, and the impact
Visual Analysis
One of the biases in media that some headlines can be deceptive, as their main purpose is to grab attention of the audience.
Bias by headlines
This is one particular bias in media to be prevented in order to fairly represent different communities, news outlets should have member of those communities in decision-making positions.
Bias in diversity
One of the biases in media that we can detect when the coverage often focuses on how issues affect people in power like; politicians or corporate executives rather than those directly affected by the issue.
Bias from the point of view
one way of analyzing images, if the image has a quality digital image without pixelation or distortion, if the image in a file format you can use, color, light and balance are true
Technical Quality
Another strategy to analyze images, if it is intended to be factual information or is intended to influence what and how you see or what information accompanies the image.
Contextual info
These are those objects, actions and behaviors that reveal cultural meaning. A photo is an image, but is also a cultural text, a picture with cultural information beyond just the picture itself.
Cultural Text