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Media Literacy: Word/Phrase of the Week

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News & Media Literacy: Word/Phrase of the Week
Each week, I tweet and post on Facebook a word (or phrase) that 21st century students should know and understand. (You don’t have to use THIS week’s—pick one from the growing list.) I recommend that educators task students with LOCATING  A NEWS STORY which uses that word/phrase; be sure they understand its meaning and be aware of the word/phrase when they encounter it in the news or popular culture.  Feel free to suggest a word or phrase to me by emailing me at fbaker1346@gmail.com

2023
Week of            Word/Phrase 

RETURNS IN 2024

November 26  Ghost newsroom
November 19  Confidence Dumping
November 12  Looksmaxing
November 5  Information Management
October 29  Spamouflage
October 22    Click Restraint
October 15    Pogrom
October 8     Shadow ban/banning
October 1      Tweakments
September 24  Smishing
September 17  Greedflation
September 10  Sadfishing
September 3  Skiplagging
BREAK
May 28           Misinformation Effect
May 21             Fitspo
May 14           Signal Boosting
May  7            no entry
April 30          Horse Race
April 23         Sonic Branding
April 16           Defamation
April 9              Doxxing
March 26      Fujiwhara effect
March 19           Indictment
March 12         Body Doubling
March 5           Anchoring Bias
February 26    Disinformation Racket
February 19    De-influencing
February 12    Darkness Retreat
February 5      Reconnaissance
January 29      Social Contagion
January 22    Newsjacking
January 15     Artificial Intelligence
January 8      Nepo Baby
January 1       Zombie Argument

 2022
Week of            Word/Phrase
December 25  Popunder, Kidult,
Device Fingerprinting, Tripledemic
December 18   Ghost Banning
December 11   Body Checking
December 4    Algospeak
November 20   Social Media Marketing
November 13  Identity Politics
November 6   Verification
October 30   Dark Money
October 23    Automatic Content Recognition
October 16   Shrinkflation
October 9   Ghosting, Orbiting, Submarining
October 2     Medical Gaslighting
September 25  Sharenting
September 18   Super Dodger
September 11  Surveillance Capitalism
September 4  Digital Amnesia
August 28     Cognitive Immunity

May 29          Climate Disinformation
May 22         Great Replacement Theory
May 15          Spliternet
May 8           Digital Redlining
May 1            Ruscism
April 24        Motion Smoothing
April 17          Phubbing
April 10         Hybrid Warfare
April 3           Russophobia
March 27    War of attrition; chemical weapons;
globalization; humanitarian corridor; rump state
March 20  War Fatigue/Safe Corridor
March 13    Browser Fingerprinting
March 6  Fog of War; No Fly Zone
February 27   Negativity Bias
February 20  Gerrymandering
February 13   False Flag
February 6    Conflict Entrepreneurs
January 30 Automated Content Recognition
January 23   Action Civics
January 16    Metatextuality
January 9    Flurona
January 2    Anti-Visualization 

 

Week of      Word/Phrase
2021
December 26  Verify
December 19  Toyetic
Dec 12 Omicron Variant
December 5  Cognitive Bias
November 28 Nano-Influencer
November 21  Woke washing
November 14  Wokeness
November 7  Availability Bias
October 31 Subvertising
October 24  Metaverse
October 17 Twindemic
October 10 “participatory disinformation”
October 3  “dark advertising”
September 26  Greenwashing
September 19  finfluencer
September 12 revenge travel
September 5 “participatory disinformation”
August 29  Prebunking
August 22  Facetuning|May 23 Zombie Claim
May 16   Ransomware
May 9  Anti-Vax
May 2  Attention Treadmill
April 25  Geo Spoofing
(aka location spoofing)
April 18 Zombie President Conspiracy
April 11   Dark Patterns
April 4     Newsjacking
March 28 Surveillance Advertising
March 21  Upfront
March 13  Easter Egg (as in movies)
March 7          Nomad
February 28  Zoom Fatigue
February 21  Fourth Wall
February 14  Doomscrolling
February 7 Down the Rabbit Hole
January 31 Conspiracy Theory
January 24  Truth Decay
January 17  Deplatforming
January 10   Mass delusion
January 3      Sound Beaming		 Week of      Word/Phrase

2020
December 27   Blursday
December 20  Trypanophobia
December 13  Naive Realism
December 6  Brand intimacy
November 29  Information Warfare
November 22  Targeted Ads
November 15  Lame duck
November 8  Illusory truth effect
November 1   Clickbait
October 25  Wokewashing
October 19   Gaslighting
October 12  Screen Addiction
October 5   Super Spreader
September 27   Long Haulers
September 20   Data Harvesting
September 13   Information Laundering
September 6  Silent Spreaders
August 31   Battleground States
August 24   Belief Echoes
August 17     Herd immunity

 

June 7     Resistance Journalism
May 31    Digital First Responders
May 24    Patchwork Pandemic
May 17     Televisits
May 10    Disinfodemic
May 3        Disastertising
April 26   “Rabbit Hole”
April 19   “Blackfishing”
April 12   “Contact Tracing”
April 5       “Zero Risk Bias”
March 29   “The New Normal”
March 22   “Infodemic”
March 15  “social distancing”
March 8   “earned media”
March 1   “illusory truth effect”
February 23  “Screen Time”
February 16  “Native Advertising”
February 9   “Geofence”
February 2    “Clout Chaser”
January 26  “Catfishing”
January 19  “Computational Propaganda”
January 12  “Media Bias”
January 5   “Attention Economy”

 Week of      Word/Phrase
2019
December 29 “Toxic Cynicism”
December 22  “information pollution”
December 15  ” artistic license”
December 8  “for your consideration”
December 1   “cancel culture”
November 24 “cultural currency”
November 17  “algorithm bias”
November 10  “algorithm literacy”
November 3  Stereotype
October 27  “Addressable TV”
October 20  “news deserts”
October  13   “sadfishing”
October 6  “showrunner”
September 29  “Immersive Technology”
September 22  “Misrepresentation”
September 15   Four Phrases
September 8  “Computer mediated communication”
September 1  “Social media influencer”
August 25  “Artificial Intelligence”
August 18  “False Equivalence”
August 11   “Social Engineering”
August 4   “Truth Decay”June 9   “Dark Money”
June 2  “Phishing”
May 26 “Cognitive Dissonance”
May 19  “Facial Recognition”
May 12   “Product Placement”
May 5      “Micro-influencers”
April 28  “Twitter bots”
April 21  “Representation”
April 14  “Net Neutrality”
April 7  “Upfronts”
March 31  “Verification”
March 24 “Confirmation Bias”
March 17 “Echo Chamber”
March 10 “Sealioning”
March 3  “Typosquatting”
February 24   “Deepfake”

 

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