Contemporary Issues U1

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words that connect search terms (keywords) to create a logical phrase that a database can understand.

What are Boolean operators

Current event that is relevant to people, society, awareness, bring us together or be divisive

What are contemporary issues

Pages must: Meet standards of notability, unbiased, verifiable claims

What are the content policies on wikipedia

Resisting the urge to immediately click on the first search result

What is click restraint

Evidence source context audience purpose execution

What is the escape method

Exagerration, satire, visuals, text, irony, symbols

What strategies do cartoonists use

The ability to analyze what we see in the media helps us to develop our own opinions, which we use to make our own, informed decisions.

Why do we study political cartoons

Unreliable fast articles for engagement

Why is it important to evaluate claims made on social media

Helps evaluate reliability of information

Why is the escape method good to use

Demographics

Data relating to the population and specific groups within it (age, race, gender, etc)

Political cartoons

Editorial cartoon, Designed to convey a social or political message

Important/ influential to society, current, subject matter being talked about by various groups in society

For something to be a contemporary issues it must be:

Wikipedia editors and administrators enforce the policies

How are Wikipedia's policies enforced

Artists use techniques to persuade the viewer to agree with their point of view

How are political cartoons used to influence our opinions

create a complex search that could include multiple concepts and alternative keywords.

How do Boolean operators help us

Methodology

How the poll was completed (cellphone, in person, internet etc)

Timeliness, proximity, conflict and controversy, human interest and relevance (TPCCHR)

Newsworthy vocab

Sample size

Part of a population chosen for a survey

Engagement over truthfulness

Social media promotes ____ over ___

Wikipedia

2001, freely accessible encyclopedia, allows users to add modify and correct existing info

Generalization

general or overall statement that is not time, person, or place specific

Confidence level

if you repeated your survey would you get the same results?

Fact

information that is known or proven to be true and accurate

Secondary source

information was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions

Contemporary history

no agreed upon definition, time between 1945 and present day (the topics that need to be explained in recent history vary from society to society)

Contemporary

occurring in the present; living or occurring at the same time

Bias

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group when compared to another (usually unfair)

Conclusions

statement made to describe data or information after careful study

Margin error

statistic expressing the amount of random sampling error in the results of a survey

contemporary world

the circumstances and ideas of present times

Primary source

the origin of information is an original account of happenings that was written or made by the person who experienced them

Question wording

the way in which survey questions are phrased, which influences how respondents answer them

Issue

to subjects, themes, or problems that affect the society causes disagreements and debates, and affects people's lives in society

Polls

type of survey or inquiry designed to measure the public's views regarding a particular topic or series of topics.

Opinion

view or judgement formed about something; not based on fact; an idea, supposition, or impression you get or have

Inferences

a conclusion or opinion that is formed based on fact and evidence

Randomization

a process of randomly assigning subjects to different treatment groups

Sampling error

error caused by observing a sample instead of the whole population


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