1. The Media Industry and Graphic Design

2. Purpose of Graphic Design
What is the purpose of graphic design?
To persuade, inform and to influence.

3. Types of Media Film, television, radio, social media
What effects does each form of media have on society?

4. Vocabulary
Journalist: a person who writes for newspapers or magazines or prepares news to be broadcast on radio or television
Propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Gatekeeper: Individuals who decide whether a given message will be distributed by a mass medium.
Social Media: websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Impartial: treating all rivals or disputants equally; fair and just.
Unbiased: showing no prejudice for or against something; impartial.
Advocate: a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.
Freedom of the Press: The right to circulate opinions in print without censorship by the government. Americans enjoy freedom of the press under the First Amendment to the Constitution.

5. First Amendment
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.

6. Citizen Journalism
Citizen Journalism is based upon public citizens “playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information”. An alternative and activist form of newsgathering and reporting that functions outside mainstream median institutions, often as a response to shortcomings in the professional journalistic field.
What are the best current outlets for citizen journalism?
What are some examples of citizen journalism that we see today?

7. Citizen Journalism – Vietnam War
For the first time since the early days of the Republic, Americans were in a war without censorship. Correspondents were subject to “ground rules” that protect military security, but, unlike in WWII and Korea, officials did not screen news copy or vet photographs.
Photographs from the war

8. Citizen Journalism – Kennedy/Nixon Debate
In 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy took part in the first live debate on national television. This first televised debate shifted how presidential campaigns were conducted, as the power of television took elections into American’s living rooms.
For the first time, citizens were able to engage with a presidential candidate in a way the were not able to previously. The could see the way the behaved, their mannerisms and their looks much more up-close and personal.

10. Citizen Journalism Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is the name given to a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning the Occupy movement against social and economic inequality worldwide. The Occupy movement was characterized by extensive use of alternative media to document, promote and report the protests as they unfolded. 
Social media websites, especially Twitter, played a pivotal role in initiating Occupy Wall Street in what has been nicknamed the "hashtag revolution“. The very first mention of #occupywallstreet was on July 13, 2011 in the following blog post by the Canadian culture jamming group, Adbusters.

14. Citizen Journalism – Arab Spring
The Arab Spring was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests, both non-violent and violent, riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia with the Tunisian Revolution, and spread throughout the countries of the Arab League and its surroundings. Major insurgencies in Syria, Libya and Yemen resulted along with civil uprisings in Egypt and Bahrain, large street demonstrations in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco and Oman, and minor protests even in Saudi Arabia.
According to some experts, social media played a significant role during the Arab Spring. From this perspective, the Arab Spring may refer to Twitter Revolution or Facebook Revolution as the use of modern technologies facilitated the communication and interaction between participants of political protests. According to the research made by the project on Information Technology and Political Islam, social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring, helped spread awareness about ongoing events all over the world, and, finally, online revolutionary conversations often preceded mass protests on the ground. Overall, the influence of social media was critical for protesters to organize demonstrations (both pro- and anti-governmental), disseminate information about their activities, and raise awareness of ongoing events locally and globally

18. Propaganda
Propaganda is information, especially of a biased nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Propaganda is often associated with the psychological mechanisms of influencing and altering the attitude of a population toward a specific cause, position or political agenda in an effort to form a consensus to a standard set of belief patterns

21. Inform versus Entertain
What is the purpose of the media?
What is more important, what the public needs to hear or what the public wants to hear?
What is the danger in only reporting what the public wants to hear?

22. Facebook Fake News Debate
Is Facebook responsible for making sure the news trending on the platform is not fake?
Is it the citizen’s responsibility to research their news?
Is it the journalists responsibility to provide credible news?

23. Project Time!
Pick one of the articles on my website to further read about a citizen journalism movement.
Create a propaganda poster for one of the following movements:
WWII
Occupy Wall Street
Arab Spring
Kennedy/Nixon Presidential Debate
Vietnam War

24. Poster requirements Must be 11x17
Must complete target audience and demographic questions
No more than 6 colors
Thumbnail Sketches Required
Rough required
Can use Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign
Must have a clear and understandable message
Must have a clear target audience
Must have clear title
Must have a catchy slogan