Introduction (done, except for #8)

Question 1

1. What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 1

to view another’s culture with your own bias/agenda/prejudices in a negative way.

Question 2

2. How would you ‘crap-detect’ while reading a news article?

Answer 2

Examples of Manufacturing Public Consent: use of loaded words in the media, films related to the issue.

Question 3

3. Why should you question the type of map projection used?

Answer 3

You should question the type of map projection being used because all maps distort the surface of the world in some fashion. Some maps, like the Mercator, makes northern countries appear larger, and therefore, more powerful.

Question 4

4. Why are statistics often inaccurate / unreliable?

Answer 4

• small groups of people selected
• people may not be 100% honest
• some areas do not have proper funding to provide more accurate statistics

Question 5

5. Give examples of media “promoting” certain issues in the news.

Answer 5

Donald Trump - people like controversial news. News has become something people want to read, like entertainment, and not necessarily what people actually need to/should know.

Question 6

6. How many countries are in the world? Why is it difficult to give an answer?

Answer 6

There are 196 official countries in the world. It is difficult to give an answer because there are sometimes conflicts within the country between ethnic groups that may want to separate, and there are also different definitions of what a country is.

Question 7

7. What are certain meaningful groupings of countries?

Answer 7

North America, South America, Central America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, Eurasia, East Asia, Middle East, South Asia, Oceania

G8, G20

Question 8

8. In what ways can the information on maps be a misrepresentation?

Answer 8

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Question 9

9. Why is celebrity news more common today than in the past?

Answer 9

Easy to produce, interesting to those who enjoy pop culture.

Question 10

10. How is our consent manufactured by media?

Answer 10

Manufacturing consent is accomplished by: selecting news & topics to be reported, filtering info through various viewpoints, editors, time constraints, limiting debate, screening effect to distract from other significant news.

Question 11

11. How is the news that we hear the product of different individuals?

Answer 11

News comes from small amount of sources. It is also processed by many people, and all of them inflict a bit of personal bias, even if it’s subconscious.

Question 12

12. What is Greenwashing?

Answer 12

disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.

Question 13

13. What was the goal of the Copenhagen Consensus?

Answer 13

Copenhagen Consensus is a project that seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare using methodologies based on the theory of welfare economics, using cost–benefit analysis

Question 14

14. What does the Gini coefficient measure? What does a value of 0.8 represent?

Answer 14

The Gini coefficient (also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio) is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income distribution of a nation’s residents, and is the most commonly used measure of inequality. A Gini coefficient of 1 means one person owns all of the wealth and a coefficient of 0 means perfect equality, with no countries getting near either extreme and most developed countries being at 0.25-0.4. 0.8 is unfair.

Question 15

15. What does HDI measure, and which states does it rank highly?

Answer 15

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. Norway ranks first.