Author’s Influence
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Author’s Influence Three important techniques authors use to influence your thinking
Bias
•When a person/advertiser/media entity displays their favoritism of one person, product, mindset, set of values, etc. over its opposition•What are some common biases
middle schoolers might have?
Bias ExamplesFOX
Accused of conservative bias
• http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-reporting/index.html
MSNBCAccused of liberal bias
• http://tv.msnbc.com/
Propaganda
• This is a technique that is used to convince people of what they should think or do. This is a way of “selling” people on an idea.• This technique uses specific words to make
themselves look like the right/righteous/only good choice and make their opponent look like the wrong/evil/obviously bad choice.• This technique might use images to make
themselves look good/wholesome while making their opponent look evil/scary.
Propaganda Examples
Hitler
•http://youtu.be/tl9aqZk4kFU
Hunger Games
Stereotyping
• This technique takes a quality of an individual or a portion of the population and applies it to everyone in the group.•What common stereotypes do you
know?
Stereotyping Examples• Child Gender Roles• “Boys will be boys”
• Shallow or Incompetent Male• http://
youtu.be/AeJdi-ePB9E
• Racial Stereotypes
• Domesticated Female• “Choosy moms
choose Jiff.”• “Choosy moms
and dads choose Jiff”
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