MEJO 441 Midterm Questions With Correct
Answers
Excellent Journalism - answercontext + complexity + voices + authenticity + proportionality
context - answeris the time, place, history, social setting, environment and culture necessary to
give meaning to the story.
Complexity - answeris providi...
context - answer✔is the time, place, history, social setting, environment and culture necessary to
give meaning to the story.
Complexity - answer✔is providing assessments of facts through a 360-degree look at the issue or
story. It entails back-ground research, multiple views and perspectives, and avoids stereotypes
and simplistic thinking.
voices - answer✔delivering the people's voices to the audience and letting them tell their part of
the story. This conveys humanity and demonstrates the writer's humility.
authenticity - answer✔is the unvarnished truth of the physical reality that you observe and
experience and includes the lived experiences of people and sources who have lent you their
voices to tell the story.
Proportionality - answer✔is responsibly representing the story, issue or audience based on well-
researched observations of the lay of the land.
Fault lines - answer✔social categories that shape lives, experiences and social tension/the main
categories of diversity.
> primary ones: race/ethnicity, gender, generation, class, geography, sometimes religion,
sometimes ability/disability
fault lines can be used to assess - answer✔- your perspective and what assumptions you are
bringing to a story of strategic communication campaign
- what fault lines are important to your story
- thinking about your potential audiences
Privilege - answer✔- special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or
enjoyed by an individual, class or caste.
- Due to one's status or rank, and exercised to the exclusion or detriment of others.
framing - answer✔- "selecting and highlighting some facets of events or issues, and making
connections among them so as to promote a particular interpretation, evaluation, and/or
solution."
- Media framing can be seen in several predictable stereotypes for people with dis-abilities.
implicit bias - answer✔is the unconscious attribution of particular qualities to a member of a
certain social group.
confirmation bias - answer✔the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's
existing beliefs or theories.
types of racism - answer✔- systematic/institutional
- individual
- interpersonal
- cultural
- structural
diversity - answer✔understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual
differences.
Inclusion - answer✔the action or state of including or of being included within a group or
structure.
Equity - answer✔(n.) the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment;
something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other
claim
Cognitive dissonance - answer✔the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes,
especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.
attribution theory - answer✔- process of drawing inferences from behavior.
> First, we perceive.
> Second, we judge.
> Next, we attribute.
> People then act on the attribution.
Fundamental Attribution Error, - answer✔we tend to be more forgiving of ourselves than of
others, which Griffin explains this way
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