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14. Chapter 14
Media Literacy Activity: Examining Expert Sources
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Media Literacy Activity:
Examining Expert Sources
Activity Objective: In this activity, you will apply the critical process to extend your critical approach to the news.
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Reviewing the Critical Process
Developing a media-literate critical perspective involves mastering five overlapping stages
that build on one another. Let’s review the critical process you’ll be using below:
Description: paying close attention, taking notes, and researching the
subject under study
Analysis: discovering and focusing on significant patterns that emerge
from the description stage
Interpretation: asking and answering “What does that mean?” and “So what?”
questions about one’s findings
Evaluation: arriving at a judgment about whether something is good, bad,
or mediocre, which involves subordinating one’s personal taste to the critical “bigger picture” resulting
from the first three stages
Engagement: taking some action that connects our critical perspective with
our role as citizens to question our media institutions, adding our own voice to the process of shaping the
cultural environment
Description
- Read two newspapers (one local daily paper and the New York Times) from the same weekday (Monday-Friday).
- Count the total number of sources used by each newspaper.
- Devise a chart on which you list every expert source who is quoted in the stories for that day. Column heads might include “News Event,” “Expert Source,” “Occupations,” “Gender,” “Age (approximate),” and “Region” (local, national, or international).
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Analysis
Using your findings, analyze the pattern of each newspaper's use of sources.
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Interpretation
Through the following questions, interpret how each newspaper uses sources.
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Evaluation
Through the following questions, assess your views on the use of sources in the news.
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Engagement
Let’s take action! Moving forward, use what you have learned to engage with sources in the news. Below are a few suggestions to get involved:
- Report your preliminary findings and document how the reporters came to choose their sources.
- Contact a reporter and/or an editor responsible for your selected stories.
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