MEDIA VOCABULARY

Cyber bullying: when someone uses technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person.

Sentence: The boy experienced a high level of cyberbullying.

Misleading: causes someone to believe something that is not true:

Sentence: the article was misleading, and the newspaper has apologized.

Sovereignty: supreme power or authority.

Sentence: My job was to save the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of the country

Rumor: an interesting story or piece of news that may or may not be true, that spreads quickly from person to person

Sentence: A rumour has surfaced that the company is about to go out of business.

Lobbying: the activity of trying to persuade someone in authority,

Sentence: Residents are still concerned about the plans and are lobbying Councilors to reject them

Legitimate: to make something legal or acceptable:

Sentence: The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimate their violent actions.

Discrimination: unfair treatment of a person, racial group, minority, etc

Sentence: AIDS victims often experience social hatred and discrimination.

Swindle: to get money dishonestly from someone by deceiving or cheating them:

Sentence: They swindled local businesses out of thousands of rupees.

Dissemination: the act of spreading news, information, ideas, etc. to a lot of people

Sentence: He promoted the dissemination of scientific ideas

Censorship: a system in which an authority limits the ideas that people are allowed to express

Sentence: Censorship of the media was effective and was broadly accepted by the media themselves.

Propaganda: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

Sentence: There has been so much propaganda against smoking that many people have given it up.

Infringement: an action that breaks a rule, law, etc

Sentence: The selling of counterfeit designer goods is an infringement of copyright laws and is illegal.