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Wideman Study Stack
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| 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) |