In lecture we talked about the different ways to target your audience: demographics, geographics, psychographics, and behaviors. Do you think one of these ways is more important for finding your audience? Do you think one is used more than the others? #UWJ201 #301

In lecture today, we talked about the many reasons that make a story newsworthy. This can include being timely, proximal, familiar, conflict, violence, etc. When watching the news recently, which of these aspects have you seen the most? Why do you think that is? #UWJ201 #301

In lecture on Wednesday, we talked about conspiratorial thinking and how it can be fueled when people are dealing with heightened emotions like feelings of fear or anger. Do you think people have to be in this state of emotional distress to believe conspiracies? #UWJ201 #301

In Elsa Klein's article, she explains the large amount of information out there, yet we aren't more politically informed because we are not interested. In this case, is it acceptable for sources use attention grabbing techniques to get more people to be interested in the political news? #UWJ201 #301

In lecture we talked about how mean world syndrome negatively impacts our perceptions. Is it more important to combat mean world syndrome at the media/TV level(by showing more positivity) or rather educating people and making them aware of it so they can diversify their own media diet? #UWJ201 #301

In lecture we talked about how framing can affect a person's perspective on a topic. Does the first frame you read shape how you interpret other frames of the same article? Is it hard for a second frame to change your perspective after you have already read a different frame first? #UWJ201 #301

In lecture today, we talked about the different aspects of ads that grab our attention like accessibility, relevance, consistency, celebrity cameos, social issues, and emotions like humor or fear. Is there one aspect that is more important or most effective at grabbing your attention? #UWJ201 #301

In lecture we talked about the progression of negative ads. Back then, it seems like negative campaign ads were mainly aimed at the person's policy, while now it feels like many ads are personal attacks rather than related to policy. Do you think one is more effective at swaying voters? #UWJ201 #301

In Wednesday's lecture, Prof. Wagner talked about how campaigns have begun to increasingly use social media as a platform for campaigning instead of local news or mailed flyers. Does this result in information being spread disproportionately between generations and what is the effect? #UWJ201 #301