Media Literacy Vocabulary Review

false information created to make money or entertain

• fake news
• media
• media literacy
• critical thinking

amazing, shocking, scandalous

• fake news
• sensational
• exaggeration
• bias

content whose main purpose is to attract attention

• clickbait
• sensational
• exaggeration
• bias

the various methods of communicating information

• media
• literacy
• exaggeration
• bias

ability to think critically about the media sources people interact with daily.

• media literacy
• literacy
• media
• persuasion

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to criticize people

• satire
• literacy
• propaganda
• bias

a particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific

• bias
• literacy
• persuade
• exaggeration

overstated or overdone

• exaggerated
• literacy
• sensational
• propaganda

ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

• propaganda
• persuade
• sensational
• bias

propaganda techniques - encouraging people to think or act a certain way because other people are doing it

• bandwagon
• testimonial
• fear
• transfer