Category: Communications&Media

With clear references to the criteria for fear appeals discussed in this unit, what makes these posters work for scaring their audience?

Unit 6 discusses fear appeals, and the criteria for successful fear appeals. These two ads are WWII propaganda and are examples of successful fear appeals. With clear references to the criteria for fear appeals discussed in this unit, what makes these posters work for scaring their audience?

Go to the website below and find another poster, provide the link to it, and make a case for which persuasive technique from aside from fear appeals, it is using to persuade.

Materials published by the U.S. Congress are in the public domain. These posters are courtesy of Northwestern University poster archives.

https://images.northwestern.edu/catalog?f[institutional_collection_title_facet][]=World+War+II+Poster+Collection+at+Northwestern+University+Library

“What’s a Fair Share in the Age of Google” articulates another problem entirely, involving news organizations and how they fail to get compensated in an age of aggregation and search engines. What do you think is a fair solution here?Explain and support your answer based on your knowledge of copyright and your close reading of this article.

How can we ensure that creative industries stay lucrative while not stifling the sharing and flow of information and material? What are the ethical and legal implications?

“What’s a Fair Share in the Age of Google” articulates another problem entirely, involving news organizations and how they fail to get compensated in an age of aggregation and search engines. What do you think is a fair solution here?Explain and support your answer based on your knowledge of copyright and your close reading of this article.

The Copyright Conundrum in an Age of Innovation
United States Copyright Office, “Copyright Basics (Links to an external site.).” [PDF, File Size 670 KB] Open access at: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

Is this, in your collective mind, an objective news organization? Explain through examples.Does this news organization, in your collective mind, serve the public interest in a healthy manner?

NEW York Times
Required Questions:

Is this, in your collective mind, an objective news organization? Explain through examples.Does this news organization, in your collective mind, serve the public interest in a healthy manner?

That is, does it provide information that is in the best interest of the audience and that promotes healthy engagement in civic life? If so, how? If not, please articulate “the problems.” These can range from sensationalism to clickbait to bias to outright misleading or questionable information. Remember: It’s ok to have a news mix that offers hard news and soft news (the latter being more entertaining, lighter stories), but news should also be like a doctor-patient relationship, telling us what we need to know about our community or the world.

If you could make any changes to this news organization and the way in which it delivers information, what would it be?

Discuss the simple conflict based on individual differences you encounter (Module 03) when speaking to prospective adopters about the negative aspects of declawing cats.

Module 3

Briefly explain how you can use the knowledge you acquired to improve your communication skills in your selected area.

https://youtu.be/mCZCok_u37whttps://youtu.be/KDwdKytPIOQ.

Explain how, as a hairstylist, it is important to achieve shared meaning (Module 01) with your clients in order to cut their hair exactly how they want it.

Discuss the resource-related conflict (Module 02) that occurs when you and your co-workers need to compete for limited supplies or appointment slots.

Explain the importance of using the communication channel of social media (Module 01) in order to relay information about adoption days and the pets that are available for adoption.

Discuss the simple conflict based on individual differences you encounter (Module 03) when speaking to prospective adopters about the negative aspects of declawing cats.

Identify 5 different media contacts or key influencers that would be good candidates for sharing your big idea story for Quell Foundation’s Podcast series

Key Media Influencers

Identify 5 different media contacts or key influencers that would be good candidates for sharing your big idea story for Quell Foundation’s Podcast series (have included a document in additional materials that explains what my big idea is & here is the link for The Quell Foundation’s website: ) For instance Ellen Degeneres, A journalist from the NY Times, A popular athlete or celebrity on social media. You should include the following about each of the 5 contacts:

1) Name of contact

2) Organization

3) Contact Information

4) Why this person? What would be your pitch strategy?