Year 8 - Citizenship
What is the media?
How does the media affect us?
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Unit Summary
In this unit students explore the roles and responsibilities of the media and the important role it plays within society.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain the different sources of media, how we can tell what is newsworthy and why information neighbourhoods differ.
Key Notes
- Media has three main types: print media, such as newspapers; broadcast media like TV and new media, like social media.
- To be considered reliable news, information must follow the VIA model - Verification, Independence, Accountability.
- News values guide journalists in selecting stories which are interesting, for example timelessness, oddity and impact.
- It's important to know the information neighbourhood you are in. These include categories like news and propaganda.
- Understanding these different sources of media and information neighbourhoods helps you know the purpose of the media.
Vocabulary To Learn
- media: forms of communication like radio, television, newspapers, magazines and the internet, that reach or influence people
- information: knowledge communicated concerning a particular fact or subject, often presented to us in the media
- news: information about current events
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- We all get our news and information from the same place.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Media has three main types: print media, such as newspapers; broadcast media like TV and new media, like social media. To be considered reliable news, information must follow the VIA model - Verification, Independence, Accountability.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'media'
forms of communication like radio, television, newspapers, magazines and the internet, that reach or influence people.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: We all get our news and information from the same place. Correction: People get their news and information from a range of different media sources which can result in people believing very different stories.
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