Click Bait

Click Bait

Answer the following questions based on the "Click Bait" handout.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are common ways headlines "bait" you into clicking, according to your handout? Click all that apply.

• Mentioning a Celebrity

• Telling You To Click

• Introducing "Shocking" News

• Leaving Out Info You'd Want to Know

• Saying Somethin That's Hard to Believe

Multiple Choice

What is the curiosity gap?

• Identifying which celebrity goes best with a piece of information

• When your mind wants to find out information that fills in blanks let behind

• The space between what you know and what you don't know.

• A planet in a galaxy far, far away

Poll

Which of these would you pick first? Why?

Open Ended

Why did you pick the headline you picked?

Open Ended

How does this headline "bait" you with the Curiosity Gap?

Open Ended

Which kind(s) of bait does this headline use? How/Why?

Poll

What kind of bait did you think this headline used? (click all that apply)

• Curiosity Gap

• Incredible/Unbelievable/Too Good to be True

• Shocking

• "Name Drop"/Celebrity Mention

Open Ended

Which kind of bait do you think would "hook" you into clicking?

Why?