HUM 101 CSU Global Jihadist Fighters and China Media Bias and Propaganda Paper CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES OF MEDIA BIAS AND PROPAGANDA Directions: The require

HUM 101 CSU Global Jihadist Fighters and China Media Bias and Propaganda Paper CONTEMPORARY EXAMPLES OF MEDIA BIAS AND PROPAGANDA

Directions:

The required readings this week include a variety of recent examples of media bias and propaganda. Using these required readings, address the following prompts and questions:

Compare and contrast the propaganda and bias emerging from jihadist fighters (Klausen, 2015) and the Chinese state (King, Pan, & Roberts, 2017).
What arguments does Schiffrin (2017) make about social media and democracy?
After reading these articles, what recommendations would you make regarding the dissemination of propaganda through popular or social media?

Requirements:

Review the CSU-Global Library Guide for reading a peer-reviewed article (Links to an external site.).
Cite all claims and ideas using scholarly sources.
Include at least one scholarly source that is not part of the required or recommended reading for this course. The CSU-Global Library (Links to an external site.) is a good place to find these scholarly sources.
Your paper should be 4-5 pages in length (not including the title page and reference page). Format your paper according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA. (Links to an external site.)

You may wish to review the APA Template Paper (Links to an external site.) for help formatting your essay according to the requirements. If you need assistance with your writing style or you need writing tips or tutorials, visit the CSU-Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.). Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

Readings from the week to pull from:

Required

Chapter 1, Chapter 3, and Chapter 9 in Poepsel, M. (2018). Media, society, culture, and you. Open Textbook Library. Minneapolis, MN: Rebus Community.
King, G., Pan, J., & Roberts, M. E. (2017). How the Chinese government fabricates social media posts for strategic distraction, not engaged argument. The American Political Science Review, 111(3), 484-501.
Klausen, J. (2015). Tweeting the Jihad: Social media networks of Western foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 38(1), 1-22.
Machiorlatti, J. A. (2017). Media literacy. In M. Allen (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of communication research methods (Vols. 1-4). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Schiffrin, A. (2017). Disinformation and democracy: The internet transformed protest but did not improve democracy. Journal of International Affairs, 71(1), 117–125.

Recommended

Butler, K. (2011). The influencing machine: A brief visual history of the media. Brain Pickings. Retrieved from https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/07/14/the-influencing-machine/
Fitzmaurice, K. (2018). Propaganda. Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 27(2), 63-67. Retrieved from https://journals.library.brocku.ca/brocked/index.php/home/article/view/580