WKS 410 - Manufacturing Consent:Persuasion and Mass Media

Institution:

Antioch University-Midwest (Closed)

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Description:

This workshop will focus on determining persuasive influences, goals and techniques used in the mass media to further governmental and or corporate interests that are contrary to the publics best interest.~ Participants will identify, discuss, and review factors that contribute to media bias of four different countries and determine how and to what degree those positions have distorted the pervasive media messages.~ In doing so participants will compare and rank each countries media accuracy in addition to the level of popular acceptance of messages based in part on Chomsky's Propaganda Model.~ As a final project participants will be given an imaginary country and asked to create and present their own new "media model" with system of checks and balances that promote both long term sustainability and message accuracy

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antioch.edu

Phone Number:

(937) 769-1800

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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