Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Digital Literacy Continued

This is a continuation of our previous post regarding information literacy. Websites and news organizations make money from advertising when we view their content. There are three important distinctions for you to know:
  1. Native Advertising - advertising that tries to sell or promote a product disguised as a news story
  2. Traditional Advertising - most common advertising that sells or promotes a product 
  3. News story - real content containing factual information about a subject and independent of bias and should answer, who, what, when and how
For this post take a look at the following two website banners and answer this question:





Which are these an example of: native advertising, traditional advertising or a news story and why? 



5 comments:

  1. Both the examples are news advertising because they are about topics that people are researching and discussing. Also, they both provide information.

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  2. Both examples look like news stories to me because they provide important information.
    Deirdre Moran

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  3. The first one is news story, as it tells people something they need to know, though it is a bit of a clickbait story.
    The second one is also a news story, as it tells people why women are not in the tech industry without blaming someone in the picture.

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  4. Both are news stories because they both give information about the topics in the advertisements.

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  5. The first is native advertising, because although it seems to be a news story telling important information, the language of it is biased enough that it's very possible the creator is trying to sell a product. The second is a news story, because it is plainly stating fact and enticing you to find out more information that involves statistics.

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