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Wideman Study Stack
Definition | Term |
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Currency | the fact that something is used or accepted by a lot of people (Oxford Dictionary ) |
Relevance | Relation to the matter at hand ( Webster) |
Credible | That can be believed or trusted (Oxford Dictionary ) |
Superficial | not studying or looking at something carefully; seeing only what is obvious ( Oxford Dictionary) |
Propaganda | ideas or statements that may be false or present only one side of an argument that are used in order to gain support for a political leader, party, etc.( Oxford Dictionary) |
Bais | a strong feeling in favor of or against one group of people, or one side in an argument, often not based on fair judgment ( Oxford Dictionary) |
Ideology | a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture (Webster) |
Impartial | not partial or biased: treating or affecting all equally (Webster) |
Objective | not influenced by personal feelings or opinions; considering only facts (Oxford Dictionary) |
domain | a set of websites on the internet that end with the same group of letters, for example.com, org' ( Oxford Dictionary) |
Algorithms | a procedure for solving a mathematical problem ( Webster) |
Sensationalism | a way of getting people’s interest by using words that are intended to shock you or by presenting facts and events as worse or more shocking than they really are (Webster) |
Disinformation | false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth (Webster) |
Misinformation | the act of giving wrong information about something; the wrong information that is given ( Webster) |
Purpose | something set up as an object or end to be attained. (Webster) |
Perspective | a particular attitude towards something; a way of thinking about something ( Oxford Dictionary) |
Susceptible | Capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation(Webster) |
Accuracy | accuracy refers to a lack of mistakes or errors (Vocabulary.com) |
Parenthetical | using or given to using parentheses (Webster) |
Citation | words or lines taken from a book or a speech ( Oxford Dictionary) |