unit 1 rev- world issues

Question 1

what does the political lens involve?

Answer 1

power and control established through laws, governance, warfare, nationalist movements, political ideologies

Question 2

what does the social/cultural lens involve?

Answer 2

Interpersonal relations or relations among communities, include cultural factors.

Question 3

what does the economic lens involve?

Answer 3

Finances and impact on the financial well-being of the country or countries involved.

Question 4

what does the environmental lens involve?

Answer 4

Involve the natural environment, physical geography features (location, landform regions, soil, water, weather, natural disasters)

Question 5

what does the resource lens involve?

Answer 5

The exploitation of natural resources in all their diverse forms—from dipping a bucket into a stream to collect water for one’s daily activities to blasting off the top of a mountain to extract the coal contained within

Question 6

WHAT IS WHERE?

Answer 6

Define the Issue: briefly explain what is happening

Location: Where is this issue occurring? Identify the absolute/specific area where it is situated (maps!)

Scale: Local, National, Global

Place: the space that the issue is inhabiting - theoretical and perceived places likes parks, walkways, ghettos, personal routes to school/work, sacred land

Question 7

WHY THERE?

Answer 7

Social/Cultural: education, health, family, religion, media

Political: government, laws, power, borders, military

Economic: trade, wealth, poverty/inequalities, monopolies

Environment: ecological impact of and on natural environment

Resource:sustainability, use and misuse of water, oil, land, forests, etc.

Question 8

Why Care?

Answer 8

What solutions have been proposed and/or tried?

Identify how it connects to other issues, conflicts?

Connect to course concepts for cross-referencing.

Question 9

How do News organizations make money?

Answer 9

By selling advertising space to companies. This allows readers and viewers to pay for little or none of the cost to produce stories. except the CBC, cause the federal government funds them.

Question 10

what is bill C-18?

Answer 10

Context: 69% of Canadians read news online, which is expensive to produce but only 11% pay for it (CBC, 2023)
- Bill C-18 would require Meta and Google to share a portion of the advertising revenue they receive when they use or share media content

Question 11

how did meta and google react to bill C-18 being enforced?

Answer 11

In protest, Meta began removing links to news content for Canadians on Facebook and Instagram as of Aug 1, 2023; google made similar threats

Question 12

why is a journalism usage fee important?

Answer 12

when news outlets, essential to the democratic process, don’t have enough resources, it becomes more difficult to keep in check and scrutinize officials, corporations, and other issues of public interest

Question 13

consuming news on social media is convenient but also bad. why?

Answer 13

news on social media is curated by an algorithm that prioritizes click-bait and creates echo chambers where misinformation can become indistinguishable from reliable sources

Question 14

what is the purpose of news images? (5 answers)

Answer 14

-Inform
-Harm
-Mislead
-Influence
-Entertain

Question 15

what is the Purpose of news images on personal Social Media accounts

Answer 15

to communicate opinions or beliefs

Question 16

How do those choices affect how you interpret the image?

Answer 16

e.g., crop, focal point, lighting, angle, etc

Question 17

what is fake news?

Answer 17

deliberately presenting false information to mislead or deceive

Question 18

what is information pollution?

Answer 18

It is hard to figure out where information is coming from and whether it is real or truthful

Question 19

what is misinformation?

Answer 19

when false information is shared, but no harm is meant

Question 20

what is Disinformation?

Answer 20

when false information is shared to cause harm (e.g. political propaganda meant to influence what people believe or their actions)

Question 21

Why do people create false information?

Answer 21

Financial: One big motive is to make money through page views (clicks) and advertising dollars

Political purpose: Another reason is to mislead people and to encourage them to adopt certain political attitudes and behaviours

Question 22

What can we do to fact check information? (5 answers)

Answer 22

-Think critically about what we see online
-Assess our emotions and stop to check before sharing information
-Learn the tools to fact-check information
-Develop the habits to verify sources and claims
-Establish a trusted list of information and news sources

Question 23

what is a Prejudice in favour of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair ?

Answer 23

bias

Question 24

when an article has emotionally charged words, evidence of exaggeration (over generalization), and only one point of view represented. this is an indication of…

Answer 24

bias

Question 25

what is a paradigm?

Answer 25

A widely accepted belief or concept; rules/conditions (related to life experiences) we use to understand those things we perceive. ex: earth is flat

Question 26

what is a paradigm shift?

Answer 26

A fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. ex: earth is round

Question 27

what is Using the standards of one’s own society/group to judge the behaviour of another society called

Answer 27

ethnocentricity

Question 28

what are the consequences of ethnocentricity? provide an example

Answer 28

superiority complex; other group viewed as abnormal
ex: Residential schools, Holocaust, Eurocentric beauty standard

Question 29

which of the logical fallacies applies: if Y occurs after X, then Y is caused by X. In reality, Y may or may not have any connection to X. provide an example

Answer 29

post hoc fallacy. politicians taking credit for successes that came before them

Question 30

which of the logical fallacies applies: if some or most of X are also Y then all of X are also Y and any individual member of X must also be Y. provide an example

Answer 30

False Syllogism. Gay men and HIV/AIDs epidemic

Question 31

what are the 5 ways points of view are formed?

Answer 31

-ethnocentricity
-bias
-paradigm shift
the logical fallacies:
1-post hoc fallacy
2-false syllogism

Question 32

what is a language which avoids, shifts, or denies responsibility; language which is at variance with its real or purported meaning

Answer 32

doublespeak

Question 33

what is doublethink?

Answer 33

the act of accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct.

Question 34

doublethink leads to cognitive dissonance which is….

Answer 34

a mental conflict that occurs when your beliefs don’t align with your actions.

Question 35

what is the function of the Canadian-Radio television Telecommunications Commission?

Answer 35

Set up to regulate the broadcasting industry in Canada

Question 36

the Honourable Pascal St - Onge is the minister of

Answer 36

heritage

Question 37

what does the crtc do

Answer 37

-Places strong restrictions on foreign ownership of broadcasting outlets
-Ensures adequate amounts of Canadian content (artists, production companies) on television and radio to preserve culture

Question 38

CBC, CTV, global news are examples of

Answer 38

National broadcast television networks

Question 39

what is the american version of the crtc and what does it allow?

Answer 39

FCC. it allows shockjocks

Question 40

what are the 4 roles of journalism?

Answer 40

-informing
-watchdog over government
-provide a voice for the people
-encourage debate and cpnversation