Seventh task

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.