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AcademyMedia in Practice

Everyday Influence

This lesson takes 8 minutes.

Objectives

  • Spot techniques outside the news
  • Run the 30-second check on a real decision

Video

Media Policy & You. Crash Course · Media Literacy #9. Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Lesson

The same levers run in advertising, workplaces, group chats, and family arguments: selection, omission, timing, repetition, and emotion. The goal is not suspicion of everything. It is noticing the lever before you act on it.

The 30-Second Check in the Tool Belt works on any decision: what is claimed, what the source is, what the evidence is, what is still unknown, and whether it needs action now.

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