Media Vocab

The search for a point or place in which something originates

• Historical Accuracy

• Source Analysis

• Text Evidence

• Implicit Bias

Something that has actual existence

• Truth

• Fact

• Opinion

• Accuracy

A view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter

• Fact

• Historical Accuracy

• Viewpoint

• Opinion

The correct use of recorded data

• Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Historical Accuracy

• Contextualization

A position or perspective from which something is considered or evaluated

• Historical Accuracy

• Opinion

• Fact

• Viewpoint

Written information that furnishes proof

• Historical Accuracy

• Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Contextualization

Something that has many factors contributing to it

• Contextualization

• Text Evidence

• Viewpoint

• Historical Accuracy

To support with evidence

• Viewpoint

• Text Evidence

• Corroboration

• Contextualization

To antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content.

• Bots

• Computer malware

• Antagonist

• Trolls

Unrevealed, expressed, or developed assumption

• Propaganda

• Implicit Bias

• Bias

• Explicit Bias