ESSAY OUTLINE
Topic: Journalism: the digital era and its influence on information.
Thesis statement: News and newspapers do
whatever it takes to make its readers believe that the information they provide
is real.
Supporting argument: the importance of language:
critical literacy proposed by Ira Shor (1999).
Supporting details: cultural reality proposed by
Kramsch (1998).
Supporting argument: with the arrival of the
digital era –the new technology and the internet- we have experienced wide
changes and impressive transformations that have remained in the society
worldwide since then.
Supporting details: provide examples of the
transformations being made since the arrival of the digital era.
Supporting argument: the weak usage of being
critical.
Supporting detail: consequences of using a weak
sense of criticism.
Supporting argument: a strong usage of being
critical.
Supporting detail: the way how the critical
readers have been idealized.
Supporting argument: the hegemony of the digital
era.
Supporting details: the hegemony is being
secured by the dominant class by supplying practices of social life in a way
that the basis of social authority and the unequal relations of power and
privilege remain hidden.
Supporting argument: the ideology of the digital
era.
Supporting details: how the media show us the way
of viewing the world, the complex of ideas, various types of social practices,
rituals and representations that we tend to accept as natural and as common
sense.
Supporting argument: the digital era in education.
Supporting detail: online education as a key to
success.
Supporting argument: the integration of hegemony,
ideology and education.
Supporting detail: references.
