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Now THAT’s Truthiness!
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FYI: A great “Truthiness/Truth” project by a team in Brenda Cooper’s Media Smarts class examining how the media frame the illegal immigration debate, and incorporating constitutional precepts, mass communication theories, journalistic ethics codes, and reporting by the news media. The assignment—in the context of the central Smarts question, “How do we know what we think we know about the world?”—asks students to take a controversial topic and find out how the media frame the debate, and then to fact-check using PolitiFact and other nonpartisan fact-checking organizations.
Among the mass communication theories the students used to evaluate media performance in this case: framing, agenda-setting, cultivation. What I like about this kind of project—an this team’s effort in particular--is that it requires research, fact-checking, evaluation and critical thinking, sense-making and synthesis, and incorporation of a wide range of theoretical and real-world issues, presented persuasively with evidence in an effective package. Very nice work. We will post it as well to the JCOM website.
The team—Pizza Feasters United—created a 16-minute multimedia video, which has been posted in two parts to YouTube. Team members: Ryan Parkinson (filmmaker), Angelica Drumm, Kellen Knowles, Teresa Nield, and Torie Welsh.
The video is too long for YouTube, so it’s posted there in two parts:
Part 1
Part 2
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Great project. I think they hit the nail on the head for the task of discovering truth in truthiness, but their point at the end about the Network news channels being less biased didn't quite ring true. The story NBC ran was framed in a way that showed the perspective of an immigrant family, but not from a more constitutional and legal point of view. It was clear there was a bit of bias in the reporting, though it was written off as not a lot.
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