for the past two days, we've talked about propagandas. little did i know what they were! i thought porpagandas were only used to trick people into following rules or two somehow manipulate them, but there's more to it. there are several different kinds of propogandas, like fear and testimonial, a few of my favorite.
fear is a type of propoganda usually used to have people act in the desired behavior by using fear. for example: proactive shows horrible pictures of people suffering from severe acne to get people to use their "acne clarifying" product. from fear of stubborn acne that won't go away, proactive has used the fear propoganda to persuade people that their product will clear up their skin. the people their "selling" to buy into the whole advertisement thing because they are scared of their acne.
another one is a testimonial propoganda, and is usually a propoganda that uses well-known people like actors, actresses, and celebrities, to "sell" whatever it is they want to sell. for example: i'll use the proactive example from above. since proactive are persuading their audience to use their acne clearing product, to ensure them, they have jessica simpson to advertise it. who by the way is very well-known and ensures the audience to trust proactive's product.
i know this is a little out of nowhere, but i want to talk about that one literacy discussion we had in class a couple days ago. the whole class had a lot to say about our literacy discussion. some points that were thrown across was how literacy contributes to your social status/standing, and how when applying for jobs, literacy being important for communication and understanding, can be greatly affected if one has either a very low literacy rate or a very high literacy rate with differing outcomes. we all agreed that literacy is our way of communicating and understanding, but not only that, but our sense of literacy also shows our sense of knowledge and, again, can contribute to our social standing in our society.
