Media Literacy: Terms You Need to Know

Favoring certain ideas, or judging things, people or groups over others that could be unfair to them.

• Conflict of Interest

• Bias

• Publish

• Prejudice

An author or company writes their ideas, stories, articles, creates images or videos to get it published in a book, newspaper, online or other types of media.

• Cognition

• Domain

• Publish

• Bias

Not easily convinced or having doubts about what you are seeing, hearing or reading.

• Skeptical

• Prejudice

• Bias

• Conflict of Interest

An attitude of hostility against an individual, group, or race because of their characteristics.

• Conflict of Interest

• Cognition

• Bias

• Prejudice

The mental process of gaining information and understanding it by thinking, your experiences and using your senses.

• Publish

• Cognition

• Domain

• Conflict of Interest

The name of the website and address where Internet users can find a website.

• Publish

• Domain

• Credibility

• Bias

A situation when an author’s personal goals or beliefs influence their ability to present information fairly.

• Conflict of Interest

• Cognition

• Bias

• Domain

The information trustworthy and should be believed.

• Skeptical

• Domain

• Bias

• Credibility